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OpenAI, Microsoft face copyright lawsuit from nonfiction authors over training ChatGPT-like AI chatbots
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OpenAI, Microsoft face copyright lawsuit from nonfiction authors over training ChatGPT-like AI chatbots

[ad_1] OpenAI and Microsoft have been hit with another lawsuit, this time from nonfiction authors, who claim that the tech companies have been training their AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot (formerly Bing Chat). This comes at a time when OpenAI and Microsoft both are involved in a chaotic situation over Sam Altman being fired as the CEO of OpenAI, and his next destination, which can either be being reinstated to his original position or taking over an AI research team at Microsoft.OpenAI, Microsoft hit with a new copyright lawsuitAccording to a report by Reuters, OpenAI, and Microsoft were sued on Tuesday over claims that they misused the work of nonfiction authors to train the artificial intelligence models that underlie services like OpenAI's chatbot ChatG...
‘Game of Thrones’ author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights
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‘Game of Thrones’ author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights

[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, ...