Two more authors sue Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement

Two American writers, Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, have filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in Manhattan federal court. They claim that the companies "simply stole" their copyrighted works to use them to create the ChatGPT chatbot "worth billions of dollars".

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According to the plaintiffs, following a recent lawsuit by The New York Times with similar allegations, the companies have publicly acknowledged that authors whose materials were used to train AI "should be compensated". In its lawsuit, The New York Times is demanding payment of "billions of dollars".

Basbanes and Gage intend to represent in court a group of writers whose work they say has been "systematically stolen" by corporations. The plaintiffs estimate that this group numbers in the tens of thousands. The lawsuit seeks damages of up to $150,000 for each infringed work.

Previously, a group of well-known American writers led by George R.R. Martin has already filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement in the creation of AI language models.

In comments on the lawsuit to The New York Times, OpenAI said it is willing to co-operate with content rights holders on a mutually beneficial basis.

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Source: NBC