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A lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI and its financial backer, Inc Microsoft Friday in Manhattan federal court by two clerks who said the two companies misused their work to train artificial intelligence models used in the popular chat program GBT Chat and other AI-based services, according to a Reuters report.
Writers Nicholas Pasbanis and Nicholas Gage told the court in a proposed suit that the two companies infringed their copyrights by including several of their books as part of the data used to train OpenAI’s large language model.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of several other lawsuits filed by writers ranging from comedian Sarah Silverman to “Game of Thrones” creator George R.R. Martin against technology companies over the alleged use of their work to train artificial intelligence programs.
The New York Times also filed a lawsuit against the two companies last week for using the work of its journalists to train artificial intelligence applications.
Michael Richter, a lawyer for both Basbanes and Gage – both former journalists – said it was “outrageous” that companies could use their businesses “to power a new industry worth more than a billion dollars without any compensation.”
