OpenAI's ChatGPT Accused of Copyright Theft

Authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that their copyrighted books were used without their consent to train OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. The authors claim that ChatGPT generates highly accurate summaries of their works, which would only be possible if it was trained on their books, constituting a violation of copyright law. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco federal court, contends that much of the training data used by OpenAI is based on copyrighted materials, including the books by Tremblay and Awad. Proving the exact source of the information and the financial damages suffered by the authors may present a challenge. The complaint provides exhibits of the summaries generated by ChatGPT, acknowledging some inaccuracies but asserting that the chatbot retains knowledge of the authors' works. The authors further claim that ChatGPT did not reproduce any copyright management information included in their published works.