Credit: Tada Images/Adobe Stock Fiction, Nonfiction Authors File Consolidated Complaint Against OpenAI and Microsoft
Plaintiffs argue that OpenAI's large language models "endanger authors' ability to make a living, in that the LLMs allow anyone to generate—automatically and freely (or very cheaply)—texts that they would otherwise pay writers to create."
February 05, 2024 at 05:15 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
Fiction and nonfiction writers pursuing copyright infringement claims against ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Microsoft filed a consolidated complaint in the Southern District of New York on Friday, bringing together two cases filed in 2023.
The plaintiffs are "seeking redress for Defendants' flagrant and harmful infringements of Plaintiffs' registered copyrights," according to the complaint.
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