Authors Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Misuse of Their Work for AI Training

A legal action has been filed against OpenAI and its financial supporter, Microsoft, in the Manhattan Federal Court by two authors who claim that the companies misused their work to train artificial intelligence models used in the popular chatbot program GPT and other AI-based services, according to a Reuters report.

Writers Nicholas Espinosa and Nicholas Guice informed the court in a proposed lawsuit that the two companies violated their copyright by including many of their books as part of the data used to train OpenAI’s large language model.

This lawsuit follows several others filed by authors ranging from comedian Sarah Silverman to George R.R. Martin, the author of “Game of Thrones,” against technology companies regarding the alleged use of their work to train AI programs.

The New York Times also filed a lawsuit against the two companies last week over the use of its journalists’ work to train AI applications.

Michael Rechtin, the lawyer for both Espinosa and Guice – who are former journalists, stated that it is “disgusting” for companies to use their works “to power a new industry valued at over a billion dollars without any compensation.”