Two US writers sued Open AI in a San Francisco federal court alleging that the company misused his work to train its generative artificial intelligence system, ChatGPT. Paul Tremblay This Mona Awad claim that ChatGPT extracted data copied from thousands of books without proper permission, thereby violating the authors’ copyrights.

Representatives of OpenAI, a Microsoft-backed company, declined to comment on the case. Matthew Butterick, the writers’ attorney, also declined to make any statements at this time.

This is not the first time that the legality of using materials to train complex artificial intelligence systems has been questioned. Several lawsuits have been filed, including lawsuits by source code owners against Microsoft’s OpenAI and GitHub, and visual artists suing AI stability, middle of the road This DeviantArt.

OpenAI and other companies involved in these disputes allege that their systems operate under the “fair use” of copyrighted works.

ChatGPT, designed to interactively respond to user text queries, has quickly become one of the fastest growing consumer AI applications in history. Launched just two months ago, the chatbot has already gained 100 million active users since January.

AI uses protected works

Both ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence systems create content based on large amounts of data received from the Internet. According to the lawsuit, filed by Tremblay and Awad, books are considered “the main ingredient” to provide “the best samples of high-quality writing in its entirety.”

According to the complaint, OpenAI’s training data is estimated to include over 300,000 books, including copyrighted works obtained from illegal libraries without the proper permission of the authors.

Mona Awad is known for her novels such as 13 Ways to Look at a Fat Woman and Rabbit. Paul Tremblay is the author of such works as “Cottage at the End of the World”, which was adapted for the film “Knock on the Door” directed by M. Night Shyamalan and released in February.

Tremblay and Awad claim that ChatGPT is able to generate “extremely accurate” summaries of their books, suggesting that their work was incorrectly included in the system’s database.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages on behalf of a national class of copyright holders whose work is allegedly misused by OpenAI. The class action lawsuit seeks to hold the company liable for copyright infringement by American writers on ChatGPT training.

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