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OpenAI sued by authors
Authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad have sued the maker of the AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, claiming that OpenAI violated the copyrights of numerous authors by scraping their books for data to train the AI model without compensating the creators or getting their permission. Their complaint said that over 300,000 books could have been mined in this way, with some books being sourced through digital databases holding pirated copies.
