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For OpenAI, the lawsuits just keep on coming. The company behind the innovative chatbot ChatGPT is the target of a copyright infringement suit organized by the Authors Guild and headlined by scribes like George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and John Grisham.

The suit was filed on September 19 in a New York federal court. The plaintiffs include 17 authors, led by literary titans like Martin, Picoult, Grisham, David Baldacci, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen, and Elin Hilderbrand. The writers are arguing that OpenAI has enabled “flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights” by building ChatGPT upon “systematic theft on a mass scale.”

As evidence of that theft, the Authors Guild pointed to ChatGPT-written works like “A Dawn of Direwolves.” The unauthorized Game of Thrones prequel uses the same characters Martin created for his unfinished book series A Song of Ice and Fire.

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Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin and other famous authors have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that their copyrighted work has been used without permission for training an artificial intelligence. The authors argue that they should have the right to opt into having their works used and should be compensated for the use of their data by OpenAI. The class action lawsuit includes a number of high-profile authors, such as John Grisham, Michael Connelly, and Jodi Picoult.

Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin and a group of other authors have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. OpenAI is the company behind the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. OpenAI's artificial intelligence models are trained using large datasets that help them learn how to mimic human writing.

Per Deadline, The Authors Guild and a group of famous authors have filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI for using their copyrighted work as "training data.

The Authors Guild, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult and a group of other famous fiction writers filed a class action lawsuit on Wednesday against OpenAI, claiming that their technology is infringing on their works.

It’s the latest lawsuit to challenge AI’s use of copyrighted works as “training data” for their system.

In their complaint, the authors claim that OpenAI copied their works “wholesale, without permission or consideration.” The plaintiffs contend that the company fed their works into large language models, “algorithms designed to output human-seeming text responses to users’ prompts and queries.”

“Generative AI is a vast new field for Silicon Valley’s longstanding exploitation of content providers. Authors should have the right to decide when their works are used to ‘train’ AI. If they choose to opt in, they should be appropriately compensated,” author Jonathan Franzen said in a statement. Read the complaint.