John Grisham among writers suing OpenAI over data

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A trade group for U.S. authors has sued OpenAI in a Manhattan federal court on behalf of prominent writers including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picoult and "Game of Thrones" novelist George R.R. Martin, accusing the company of unlawfully training its popular artificial-intelligence based chatbot ChatGPT on their work.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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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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