ChatGPT isn’t done making authors happy. George R. R. Martinthe author of the saga game of Thrones as well as sixteen writers, have filed lawsuits against the Californian start-up OpenAI. These seventeen authors accuse artificial intelligence of using their works to create ChatGPT in defiance of their copyrights, theFrench media agencythis Thursday 21 September.
Work used to train the AI language model
In the complaint filed they accuse the company of having used their books ” without permission “ to train its language model and then power the AI technology behind ChatGPT.
Read also: The creator of Black mirror wrote an episode with ChatGPT and I learned lessons from it… though “this is shit”
According to them, the tools of this artificial intelligence can be used to produce derivative content, which imitates the style of writers. “In an unfair and perverse way, (…) the deliberate copying [du travail] the appellants therefore transform their works into engines of their own destruction”we read in the complaint.
These models “they endanger the ability of fiction writers to earn a living, because they allow anyone to automatically and freely (or very cheaply) generate texts for which they would otherwise have to pay the authors”say the authors.
In addition to George R.R. Martin, the novelist is among the plaintiffs in this class action John Grishamor even the essayist Jonathan Franzen.
Source: Madmoizelle
Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
