A professional group for American authors has continued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on behalf of prominent writers including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picault and “Game of Thrones” novelist George RR Martin, accusing the company of illegally training its popular chatbot based on artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, on their work. From a report: The proposed class action filed Tuesday evening by the Authors Guild joins several others filed by writers, source code owners and visual artists against generative AI providers. In addition to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, similar lawsuits are pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI over data used to train their AI systems. Other authors involved in the latest lawsuit include “The Lincoln Lawyer” writer Michael Connelly and lawyer-novelists David Baldacci and Scott Turow.
John Grisham, George RR Martin and other prominent US authors sue OpenAI over copyright
