The more you watch ChatGPT, the more you pay? Copyrighted authors are suing OpenAI

**Source: **Financial Association

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OpenAI is caught in a copyright war over ChatGPT. In some previous copyright lawsuits against OpenAI, users sued OpenAI for public network information, but many experts believe that this has copyright flaws and does not necessarily constitute infringement.

And after a series of lawsuits with unclear copyright attribution, some original artists can’t help but end up, and these people usually have undisputed ownership of copyright.

In late June, two award-winning authors, Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay, sued OpenAI, accusing it of violating copyright law by using its published books to train ChatGPT without their consent.

They argue that since ChatGPT can generate detailed summaries of their works, it means that ChatGPT has included their books in its dataset.

Daniel Gervais, a law professor at Vanderbilt University, said the authors’ lawsuit is one of a handful of copyright cases against generative AI in the United States, but it will not be the last.

According to the latest reports, American comedian Sarah Silverman and two other writers, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, also sued OpenAI. They also believe that the books they published have been abused by ChatGPT, using their copyrights to obtain huge commercial profits.

These writers are all asking the court to try and seek statutory damages and other damages from OpenAI.

Numerous Legal Challenges

Gervais said more writers will be suing companies that develop large language models and generative artificial intelligence, and a slew of legal challenges to ChatGPT across the United States are coming.

However, according to Gervais, it may be difficult to prove that the writers suffered monetary losses as a result of OpenAI’s data collection practices.

In addition, court documents show that many books may have come from pirated sites, but there are also cases where the authors claim that books are entered into the database.

That concern was echoed by Andres Guadamuz, an expert in artificial intelligence and copyright at the University of Sussex, who said that even though books were in ChatGPT’s training set, books may have entered the final training through another dataset legally collected by OpenAI.

And if the book information is obtained by ChatGPT from public network channels, then the nature of this behavior may be different.

The law firm responsible for the two lawsuits, Joseph Saveri, said that in November last year, it sued Microsoft’s GitHub Coplit for copyright issues; it sued Stable Diffusion, an AI image generator, in January this year; now, it accepts five writers commissioned to sue OpenAI.

In addition to OpenAI, the law firm also stated on its website that it will sue Meta on behalf of Silverman, Golden and Kadrey at the same time, because its artificial intelligence model LLaMA also used copyrighted books for training.