In the last few months, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and apps have created a lot of buzz and have become an integral part of our lives. And while ChatGPT continues to amuse people across the world, there's news that its company OpenAI has now been sued for alleged copyright infringement by two authors.
American authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad have sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT, reported Reuters.
It is known that ChatGPT and other such AI chatbots write content based on the data available on the internet. And thus, the authors have alleged that ChatGPT copied data from several books without the writers' or publishers' permission, thus infringing copyrights of the authors. Their lawsuit said that books are one of the main sources for ChatGPT, as they are the "best examples of high-quality longform writing."
'Several legal challenges have been filed over material used to train cutting-edge AI systems. Plaintiffs include source-code owners against OpenAI and Microsoft's GitHub, and visual artists against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt. The lawsuit targets have argued that their systems make fair use of copyrighted work,' Reuters further reported.
Both the authors, Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, have several books to their credit. Some of Awad's books including: '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl', 'Bunny', among others. Meanwhile, Tremblay's novel 'The Cabin at the End of the World', was adapted into the film 'Knock at the Cabin' by M. Night Shyamalan.
According to Reuters, 'The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of money damages on behalf of a nationwide class of copyright owners whose works OpenAI allegedly misused'.
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