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Prominent Authors Including George R.R. Martin and John Grisham, Sue OpenAI Over Copyright

21 September, 2023

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A trade group of prestigious authors from the United States are suing Chat GPT’s parent platform, Open AI. The writers are carrying out the legal proceedings through the Manhattan federal court.

A group of prominent novelists, including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen and Elin Hilderbrand, are joining the legal battle against OpenAI, accusing the company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its chatbot.https://t.co/X7die31wTl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 20, 2023

The group contains an extremely prestigious writer John Grisham. Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, and Jodi Picoult are some of the other big names in the group.

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 https://t.co/8KHHi4Npx8
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 20, 2023

Proclaimed author and the Game of Thrones novelist Mr. George R.R. Martin is also accusing the AI platforms. He accuses Chat GPT of using his literary work without permission, as do other authors.

The most recent addition to the group of authors is “The Lincoln Lawyer” writer, Mr

Michael Connelly, and David Baldacci and Scott Turow, who are lawyers and novelists.

We have organized a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement of their works of fiction on behalf of a class of authors whose works have been used to train GPT. Plaintiffs incl John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, Victor LaValle, George R.R. Martin & more.https://t.co/1laaRbRCyC
— The Authors Guild (@AuthorsGuild) September 20, 2023

The authors filed this class action lawsuit late on Tuesday. Not just authors, the group includes source code owners, visual artists, and other AI providers.

George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, and George Saunders are among the authors who have filed a class action lawsuit against the company behind ChatGPT. https://t.co/GS10PptLQp
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 20, 2023

Open AI that is chat GPT is the parent company is Microsoft backed. Therefore open AI and Microsoft are the primary defendant parties of the lawsuit.

https://twitter.com/franklingraves/status/1704490693962367070?t=rgR4Nw8ZbnWqLh09wzOFlQ&s=19

The open AI platform is facing similar lawsuits relating to Meta and Atability AI over using their data to train the AI systems.

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