The Authors Guild claims ChatGPT recently generated two unreleased volumes of George R.R. Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’ series, ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’|Gage Skidmore|CC BY-SA 2.0
While their book genres may be different, more than a dozen famous world-renowned authors, including George R. R. Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, have sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement.
The lawsuit
These authors and the Authors Guild filed a lawsuit in New York federal court accusing OpenAI of “systematic theft on a mass scale.”
The suit claims the AI chatbot firm used pirated copies of the authors’ work to train the large language models (LLM) that allowed GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 to answer user’s prompts.
The Authors Guild said in a statement that ChatGPT recently generated two unreleased volumes of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series, A Song of Ice and Fire.
What now?
The guild is seeking unspecified actual damages but is open to $150,000 for each infringed work paid out to plaintiffs.
OpenAI told Fores that it is having, “productive conversations with many creators around the world, including the Authors Guild, and have been working cooperatively to understand and discuss their concerns about AI.”