Description: Two authors alleged in a class action lawsuit OpenAI infringed authors' copyrights by incorporating illegal "shadow libraries" offering copyrighted books without permission in the training data of its generative LLMs, such as ChatGPT.
Editor Notes: Clarified title.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Paul Tremblay , Mona Awad and authors of copyrighted works.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
555
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2018-06-11
Editors
Khoa Lam
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itnews.com.au · 2023
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Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT.
Massachusetts-based writers Paul T…
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