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Lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement by authors
TLDR Authors like Douglas Preston and George R. R. Martin are suing OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement, claiming that the AI program ChatGPT has memorized specific text from their books. The lawsuit raises legal questions around fair use, transformation of work, and potential harm to the marketplace for creators.
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Author Douglas Preston discovered that OpenAI's chatbot, chatGPT, seemed to have access to detailed information from his books without his permission.
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Tech companies like OpenAI are using vast amounts of human creativity to build powerful AI programs, leading to legal questions and a lawsuit from authors like Douglas Preston and George R. R. Martin over alleged copyright infringement.
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Authors like Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult, and George Saunders, who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against OpenAI, are trying to gather evidence to show that the AI program ChatGPT has memorized specific text from various books, indicating potential copyright infringement.
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Fair use allows for borrowing and remixing of authors' work, with factors like transformation and societal value influencing legal decisions, as seen in the Google Books case.
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The lawsuit against OpenAI argues that generative AI will harm the marketplace for creators' works by quickly producing large quantities of text based on copyrighted material.
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OpenAI would need to retrain their AI from scratch and face potentially massive statutory damages if found guilty of copyright infringement, as illustrated by a case involving Spotify's streaming of songs without proper licenses.
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Legally, claiming innocence due to inability to comply may not hold, but settling through a class action like Spotify did could be a practical solution for OpenAI in copyright infringement cases.
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OpenAI may see the lawsuit as an opportunity to negotiate with a group of authors collectively suing them for copyright infringement, potentially resolving the issue in one fell swoop.
