They accuse Open AI of breaking the law and using their books to test AI during development. Their books are copyrighted, but they didn’t get a dime.

“ChatGPT quotes very accurately from our work” – claimed the two authors who sued the world-famous artificial intelligence company Open AI in San Francisco. Mona Awaz and Paul Tremblay The lawsuit is the first against ChatGPT in a copyright issue – said an expert in London to Guardian. Andres Guadamuz of the University of Sussex deals with the legal issues of artificial intelligence and points out that the lawsuit pushes the boundaries of legality, because ChatGPT “works” from content found on the Internet.

According to the expert, it may be right for the authors to assume that their books have also been used for ChatGPT development, since literary works are very suitable for this, since their language is well developed, the works are carefully edited and usually contain high quality prose. “It’s a gold mine for language development.”

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If the court accepts the authors’ arguments, ChatGPT could be in a lot of trouble, because the authors are not only seeking monetary compensation for themselves, but also for all creators who are protected by copyright in the United States.

At the same time, it would be a bit difficult to prove that the authors suffered significant damage by using their books to develop ChatGPT, experts emphasize. They point out that Open AI is in no hurry to reveal how ChatGPT is developed. All they said is that they used online books during development.

According to lawyers, this means 294,000 books that can be purchased from shadow bookstores, where you can get to your destination through torrents.

What can be expected at trial?

It all depends on how the court in San Francisco rules whether or not ChatGPT has used copyrighted works in a fair way. There is such a thing in American law, but not in British law – Professor Lillian Edwards, who deals with copyright at Newcastle University, explains the difficult legal situation. He told the Guardian that the British government was preparing a law that would remove artificial intelligence from copyright, and allow them to use copyrighted works for free, but creators and publishers were outraged, so the legislation was stopped. Of course, the problem remained.




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