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2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow.

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-copyright-lawsuit-authors-chatgpt-trained-on-books-2023-7

Two authors sued OpenAI, accusing the company of violating copyright law. They say OpenAI used their work to train ChatGPT without their consent.

2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1246165

Two authors sued OpenAI, accusing the company of violating copyright law. They say OpenAI used their work to train ChatGPT without their consent.

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burrp

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How many reviews of their works have been posted online? You don't need the source text.

mob

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Article mentions that

even if the books are in OpenAI's training datasets, the company could have obtained the work through the lawful collection of another dataset. And showing that ChatGPT would have behaved differently if it never scooped up the work of the authors is unlikely due to the vast amount of data it scrapes off the web