The companies “OpenAI”, which operates the GPT chat application, and “Microsoft” face; new lawsuits; Due to accusations that they violated other people’s copyrights and intellectual property to train their generative AI techniques.
The lawsuit, the details of which were published by Reuters, showed that a number of non-fiction authors, filed by author Julian Sancton, accused Open AI and Microsoft of violating their intellectual property rights.
They said in the lawsuit that they did not receive compensation for using their academic books and journals to train the company’s large linguistic model.
In the lawsuit, the authors state how they spent years “conceptualizing, researching, and writing their creations,” and accuse the two companies of refusing to pay them any compensation, even though they were able to make tens of billions of dollars by appropriating collected humanitarian works without permission.
The companies pretend that copyright laws do not exist and have “enjoyed enormous financial gains from their exploitation of copyrighted materials,” the complaint says.
Sancton and thousands of other writers did not consent nor were compensated for the use of their intellectual property in the training of the AI, the lawsuit notes. Their complaint also highlights that Microsoft and OpenAI have commercialized their AI models, making billions of dollars in revenue through products like BingChat and ChatGPT Enterprise.
“Nonfiction authors often spend years conceiving, researching, and writing their creations. While OpenAI and Microsoft refuse to pay nonfiction authors, their AI platform is worth a fortune. The basis of the OpenAI platform is nothing less than the rampant theft of copyrighted works,” the lawsuit states.
