00:00 John Grisham could be going to court for real.
00:04 The legal thriller writer is among major US authors unhappy with chat GPT creator OpenAI,
00:11 a trade group that represents the likes of Grisham this week filed to sue the firm.
00:17 The Authors Guild also represents big names like Game of Thrones novelist George R.R.
00:21 Martin and Freedom writer Jonathan Franson.
00:25 The suit accuses OpenAI of unlawfully training its artificial intelligence based chatbot
00:30 on their work.
00:32 It joins several others from writers, visual artists and source code owners against generative
00:38 AI providers.
00:40 Similar lawsuits are pending against meta-platforms and stability AI over the data used to train
00:45 their AI systems.
00:47 OpenAI and other defendants have said their use of training data scraped from the internet
00:52 qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
00:56 A spokesperson for the company said on Wednesday that it respects authors' rights.
01:01 But the Authors Guild said writers must have the ability to control if and how their works
01:06 are used by generative AI.
01:08 They said they needed this to "preserve our literature".
01:12 The new lawsuit is concerned with data sets used to train OpenAI's large language model
01:17 to respond to human prompts.
01:19 They allege it included text from the authors' works that may have been taken from illegal
01:23 online pirate book repositories.
01:26 The complaint said ChatGPT generated accurate summaries of the authors' books when prompted,
01:31 which they believe indicated their text is included in its database.
01:36 It also cited growing concerns that authors could be replaced by systems like ChatGPT
01:41 that make what they called "low-quality e-books" impersonating authors and displacing human-authored
01:47 books.
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