OpenAI faces new copyright lawsuit a week after NYT lawsuit

Another copyright infringement lawsuit has hit OpenAI and Microsoft, with two non-fiction books suing Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that the defendants stole the authors' copyrighted works to help them build their artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court on Friday, Jan. 5, comes a week after the companies sued Microsoft and OpenAI over similar copyright infringement complaints, alleging that the companies used the newspaper's content to train large language models.

The latest legal action by authors Nicholas Basbens and Nicholas Gage follows the defendants' acknowledgment after the Times lawsuit that copyright owners, including the plaintiffs, should be compensated for the use of their work. The Times lawsuit is causing “billions of dollars” in damages.

According to the legal document, Basbans and Gage's lawsuit seeks up to $150,000 in damages for each work the defendants infringed.

According to The Times, suing OpenAI, the AI ​​company, said, “We respect the rights of content creators and owners and are committed to working with them to ensure they benefit from AI technology and new revenue models.”

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In September, a group of 17 writers including George RR Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, George Saunders and Jonathan Franzen joined the proposed class-action suit, led by the Authors Guild, a New York-based professional organization for published writers. With OpenAI.

Another author, Julian Sancton, is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using the work of non-fiction authors without permission to train AI models, including ChatGPT — a natural language processing artificial intelligence (AI) tool.

The developer of the popular chatbot ChatGPT faces a separate class-action lawsuit in California alleging it scrubbed personal user data from the Internet. Clarkson Law Firm filed the complaint on June 28, 2023 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

According to the lawsuit, OpenAI trained ChatGPT using data collected from millions of social media comments, blog posts, Wikipedia articles and family recipes without user consent.

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