{"id":598614,"date":"2023-11-23T03:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nonfiction-authors-sue-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T03:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:46:50","slug":"nonfiction-authors-sue-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nonfiction-authors-sue-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nonfiction authors sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/biden_executive_orde_AI_10302023_AP_.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A group of nonfiction authors has filed a lawsuit against U.S.-based tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, alleging that the two companies trained its\u00a0AI ChatGPT tool to copy their work without their consent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a complaint filed in the Manhattan federal court Tuesday, author Julian Sancton, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, alleged that he and thousands of other nonfiction authors did not receive any compensation for their work being copied by AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The complaint noted that Microsoft and OpenAI enjoyed financial success commercializing their work, making billions of dollars through revenue on its AI products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNonfiction authors often spend years conceiving, researching, and writing their creations. While OpenAI and Microsoft refuse to pay nonfiction authors, their AI platform is worth a fortune,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cThe basis of the OpenAI platform is nothing less than the rampant theft of copyrighted works.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The complaint also alleges that both companies collaborated closely on creating and using their AI-powered products, such as the popular ChatGPT chatbot, to recognize and process text inputs from and user and \u201cgenerate text that has been calibrated to mimic a human written response.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendants have made commercial reproductions of millions, maybe billions, of copyrighted works without any compensation to authors, without a license, and without permission,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cIn doing so, they have infringed on the exclusive rights of Plaintiff Sancton and other writers and rightsholders whose work has been copied and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriated to train their artificial intelligence models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits comes amid the recent shakeup between the two tech companies, as Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, returned to his post with the company just days after being outed due to an internal investigation by the company\u2019s board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response to Altman\u2019s ouster from the company, more than 600 OpenAI employees signed an open letter threatening to join Altman at Microsoft if their company\u2019s current board of directors doesn\u2019t step down from their positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>OpenAI is known for launching the popular ChatGPT last November, an AI-powered chatbot that automatically generates human-like responses to users\u2019 queries in a way that is more advanced than previous <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The popularity of the OpenAI\u2019s chatbot resulted in other major tech companies, including Microsoft, introducing or announcing their own AI-implement services this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sancton, on behalf of the group of nonfiction authors, is seeking damages from the two companies \u201cfor their largescale infringement of their copyrighted works, as well as injunctive relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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