A group of well-known fiction writers, including George RR Martin (Game Of Thrones), Sylvia Day (Crossfire saga), Mary Bly (A Kiss at Midnight) and John Grisham (The Lost Report), have filed a class action lawsuit in the UK. United States Open against IA.
The legal action was supported by the ‘Authors Guild’, the professional organization of published authors, as well as 17 other individual authors.
These all aim to address the use of copyrighted works of fiction in training large-scale language models and their use to create texts that imitate the works of these authors.
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The lawsuit was based on the perception of “harm and existential threat” that supported the use of copyrighted works of fiction, considering the Chat GPT app inappropriate.
The legal action allegedly focuses on OpenAI: The company used these protected works without obtaining the necessary license to use them in educational language models.specifically the GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 models, which are essential for powering the ChatGPT ‘chatbot’ and the company’s other business tools.
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One of the main problems arising from this unauthorized use is that ChatGPT users can request that ChatGPT create texts that imitate the work of affected authors.
This includes cases where attempts have been made to create additional volumes for famous epics, such as George R. R. Martin’s attempt to create volumes 6 and 7 of the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ epic.
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“People are already distributing content created by GPT versions that parody or use the characters and stories of the original authors. Companies are selling messages that let you ‘enter the world’ of an author’s books.” These are clear violations of the original creators’ intellectual property rights.The executive director of the Writers’ Guild condemned Mary Rasenberger.
Although this class action lawsuit focused on fiction writers, it was recognized that it also affected people of all literary genres.
MoreoverThe case of Jane Friedman, who reported finding books bearing her name on Amazon in August, was cited. that he does not write and that it is included in his author profile on Goodreads.
*This content was rewritten with the help of artificial intelligence, based on information from Europa Press, and reviewed by a journalist and editor.
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