The Authors Guild — which also represents bestselling writers like Michael Connolly, Scott Turow, Jodi Picoult, David Baldacci, and others — filed the lawsuit against OpenAI Wednesday in a New York district court.
“Plaintiffs, authors of a broad array of works of fiction, bring this action under the Copyright Act seeking redress for Defendants’ flagrant and harmful infringements of Plaintiffs’ registered copyrights in written works of fiction,” the class action lawsuit obtained by“Defendants copied Plaintiffs’ works wholesale, without permission or consideration.
The lawsuit claims that pirated copies of the authors’ book were “fed” without permission “into the fabric of GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 which power ChatGPT and thousands of applications and enterprise uses—from which OpenAI expects to earn many billions,”“Defendants could have ‘trained’ their LLMs on works in the public domain. They could have paid a reasonable licensing fee to use copyrighted works,” the lawsuit states.