Microsoft and OpenAI Face Another Copyright Infringement Lawsuit from Nonfiction Authors
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Tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI face a copyright infringement lawsuit from two nonfiction authors who claim their copyrighted work was illicitly used in AI system development. This follows a similar lawsuit from The New York Times and other legal actions involving different authors. The companies, who previously conceded that copyright owners should be compensated, are now being sued for damages. OpenAI has reiterated their respect for content creators' rights and their commitment to ensure the creators benefit from AI technology.
OpenAI and Microsoft find themselves under the legal spotlight once again as two authors of nonfiction books file a copyright infringement lawsuit against them. The plaintiffs allege that the tech giants illicitly employed their copyrighted content in the development of their artificial intelligence system. This legal action, lodged in a Manhattan federal court on Friday, Jan 5, follows close on the heels of a similar lawsuit from The New York Times which contends that the corporations utilized their paper's content to hone expansive language models.
The latest litigation brought forth by authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage arrives in the wake of the tech companies' admission, post the Times' lawsuit, that copyright holders, including the authors, merit compensation for their work's usage. The Times seeks damages running into "billions of dollars".
As per the filed documents, the lawsuit by Basbanes and Gage requests damages of up to $150,000 for every individual work infringed by the defendants. The Times, after filing its case against OpenAI, received this statement from the AI organization, “We respect the rights of content creators and owners and are committed to working with them to ensure they benefit from AI technology and new revenue models.”
In related news, Anthropic has assured it will not utilize client data for AI training. This past September, guided by the Authors Guild, a collective of 17 writers, including famous names like George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, George Saunders, and Jonathan Franzen, became part of a planned class-action lawsuit against OpenAI.
Yet another author, Julian Sancton, has instigated a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of unauthorized usage of nonfiction authors' work for teaching AI models, including ChatGPT, a renowned natural language processing AI instrument. Additionally, ChatGPT's creator faces a separate class-action lawsuit in California, accusing it of illegally scraping private user data off the internet. This case was filed on June 28, 2023, by the Clarkson Law Firm in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; it maintains that OpenAI trained ChatGPT using data from several millions of social media comments, blog articles, entries from Wikipedia and family recipes, all without the necessary approval from the concerned users.
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1/6/2024 3:28:13 PM
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