A group of authors filed a lawsuit against OpenAIthe technology company known for software development ChatGptincluding the famous author of “Game of Thrones”, George RR Martin. The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, including Martin, John Grisham e Jodi Picoult, accused OpenAI of using their books “without permission” to train its algorithms.
ChatGPT, the author of Game of Thrones (and more) is suing OpenAI
The complaint, filed in a federal court in New York (and reported by Internazionale), states that OpenAI’s algorithms are based on a “massive-scale systematic theft” of the authors’ texts. Additionally, the Authors Guild says this endangers writers’ ability to make a living.
ChatGpt has the ability to produce “derivative works” imitating the style of the writers, who consider this practice to be a violation of copyright. Without copyrighted works to train their algorithms with, the authors say OpenAI it would have no commercial product to compete with on the market of the works of professional authors.
The Authors Guild and writers require the prohibition on the use of copyrighted books for the development of language models “without express permission”, in addition to compensation for damages. OpenAI used a vast amount of text found online to power its chatbot. But he did not specify exactly which sites and writings were used.
This is not the first complaint involving OpenAI. Just remember the group of computer engineers who complained about the “theft” of code from the GitHub platform. Or the fact that the New York Times and other publications blocked access to training bots.
The lawsuit filed by the authors represents another significant challenge for OpenAI and raises important legal questions about copyright infringement in the field of artificial intelligence. A topic recently at the center of a discussion organized by the Italian Ministry of Culture. A symptom that a solution to this issue is increasingly urgent.