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[ad_1] A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn't be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works.But are AI chatbots — in this case, widely commercialized products made by OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft — breaking copyright and fair competition laws? Professional writers and media outlets will face a difficult fight to win that argument in court. “I would like to be optimistic on behalf of the authors, but I'm not. I just think they have an uphill battle here,” said copyright attorney Ashima Aggarwal, who used to work for academic publishing giant John Wiley & Sons. One ccomes from The New York Times. Another from a group of well-known ...

[ad_1] "Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, and several novelists including Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models," algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit. "And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a massive scale," said the complaint, filed Tuesday in a New York federal court. Numerous other lawsuits have been filed by artists, ...

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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works

‘Game of Thrones’ author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights