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group of famous novelists On Wednesday, he joined the Authors Guild in filing a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company's technology illegally uses copyrighted works.
The complaint alleges that OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot “ChatGPT,” copied works known for “blatant and harmful” copyright infringement and used manuscripts to train the system how to create more human-like text responses. is input into the algorithm.
Seventeen prominent authors, including George R.R. Martin, Jodi Pickult, John Grisham, and Jonathan Franzen, joined the lawsuit led by the Writers Guild, a professional organization that protects the rights of writers. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, alleges that OpenAI's models are a technology that generates text that authors may be paid to write, and that they use copyrighted material to create copycat works. They argue that OpenAI's model directly harms writers' ability to earn a living wage.
“Generative AI threatens to devastate the writing profession,” the Authors Guild wrote in a press release Wednesday.
The complaint alleges that books created by authors that are illegally downloaded and fed into the GPT system may benefit OpenAI by “writing” new works in the author's style, while the original authors receive nothing. He claims he can't get it. The press release lists Martin's two new volumes in the Game of Thrones series, as well as his AI efforts to create AI-generated books available on Amazon.
Authors Guild CEO Mary Razenberger said in a statement: “It is imperative that we stop this theft or else we will lose the great literature that feeds so many other creative industries in America.” It will destroy the culture.” “Good books are usually written by people who have spent their careers, in fact, their lives, learning and perfecting their craft. To protect our literature, authors must You must have the ability to control whether and how your work is used by the generative AI.”
This class action lawsuit joins other lawsuits, organizations and individuals raising the alarm about how OpenAI and other generative AI systems are impacting creative works. One author told CNN in August that he found a new book being sold under his name on Amazon. It's just that she's not what she wrote. They appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence. Two other authors sued OpenAI in June, alleging that OpenAI misused their work to train ChatGPT. Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors also sued OpenAI, the creator of Meta and ChatGPT, in July, accusing the company's AI language model of using copyrighted material in books without their knowledge or consent. He claimed to have been trained based on
However, OpenAI objected to this. Last month, the company asked a San Francisco federal court to narrow down two separate lawsuits arguing that most of the claims by authors, including Mr. Silverman, should be dismissed.
“Creative professionals around the world use ChatGPT as part of their creative process. We respect the rights of writers and authors and believe they should benefit from AI technology. '' an OpenAI spokesperson told CNN in a statement. “We have had productive conversations with many creators around the world, including the Authors Guild, and have worked with them to understand and discuss their concerns about AI. We are optimistic that we can continue to find mutually beneficial ways to work together to leverage new technologies in our ecosystem.”
In July, US lawmakers met with members of the creative industry, including the Writers Guild, to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence. At a Senate subcommittee hearing, Razenberger called for legislation to protect authors from AI, including rules requiring AI companies to be transparent about how they train their models.
More than 10,000 authors, including James Patterson, Roxanne Gay and Margaret Atwood, have also issued legal warnings to AI industry leaders such as Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI if they use their copyrighted works to train AI models. signed an open letter asking for the author's consent and remuneration. Fairly when they do so.
But the AI challenges facing creative professions are unlikely to go away.
“Generative AI is a vast new field in which Silicon Valley has been leveraging content providers for years. Authors should have the right to decide when their work is used to 'train' AI.” author Jonathan Franzen said in a release Wednesday. “If they choose to opt in, they should be compensated appropriately.”
