Two authors are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their books. Could they win?

Sat, 5 Aug 2023 19:28:44 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/two-authors-are-suing-openai-for-training-chatgpt-with-their-books-could-they-win-209227>

"Imagine you read a book. You commit details of the book to memory and ruminate
on the ideas contained in it.

Somebody then asks you a question about the book. You provide them with a
written response.

Would you be surprised if the author of the book tried to sue you for copyright
infringement?

OpenAI is facing exactly this situation.

Authors Mona Awad (Bunny13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl) and Paul
Tremblay (The Cabin at the End of the World), filed a lawsuit against OpenAI
last week, claiming the books were used to train ChatGPT, its artificial
intelligence software, without their consent.

It is the first lawsuit against ChatGPT that concerns copyright, The Guardian
reported.

The only difference from the scenario I’ve outlined is that instead of a human
reading a book, OpenAI is accused of allowing its AI program to copy a book to
its internal database and train on it."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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