OpenAI and Microsoft sued by author for copyright infringement over AI
OpenAI, known for developing ChatGPT and other technologies, and its partner Microsoft were sued in Manhattan federal court on November 21, 2023, alleging that the company misused the copyrighted works of non-fiction authors to train its AI. The plaintiffs are seeking monetary damages and an order to immediately cease the AI's copyright infringement.
23-11-21 Sancton v. OpenAI Class Complaint_toFile_clean - OPENAI COPYRIGHT LAWSUIT sanctoncomplaint.pdf
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The lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft was filed by author Julian Sancton and others, who claim that OpenAI created unauthorized copies of tens of thousands of books in order to train a large-scale language model to respond to text prompts entered by human users.
Sancton cited non-fiction books such as Julian Sancton's book ' Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night ' as examples. Sancton's lawyer, Justin Nelson, argued, 'OpenAI has not disclosed what data it used to train GPT-4, but ChatGPT simply said, 'Julian Sancton's book, Madhouse at the End of the Earth, is included in my training data.''
Sancton and his colleagues are also suing Microsoft, which has a partnership with OpenAI. 'Microsoft provides the cloud computing service
The complaint also alleges that 'Microsoft knew that OpenAI's training data was indiscriminately scraped from the internet and contained a large amount of pirated material, including copyrighted non-fiction works.'
Sancton and his colleagues are seeking monetary damages from OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court, as well as a court injunction to stop OpenAI from infringing their copyrights. 'For people who write for a living, it's disturbing that our work is being used without permission or compensation to train large-scale language models for profit,' Sancton said.
An OpenAI spokesperson declined to comment, citing the pending litigation, and Microsoft also declined to comment.
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