"When a federal judge decided to allow a sprawling class-action lawsuit against OpenAI to move forward, he read some "Game of Thrones" fan fiction. In a court ruling Monday, US District Judge Sidney Stein said a ChatGPT-generated idea for a book in the still-unfinished "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin could have violated the author's copyright."
"The decision was made in a case that consolidated several class-action lawsuits from authors - including Martin, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jia Tolentino, and Sarah Silverman, among others - against OpenAI and Microsoft. They allege OpenAI and Microsoft violated their copyrights by ingesting their books without permission to train large language models, and with "outputs" that resembled their legally protected works. In his Monday ruling, Stein considered one of the prompts the authors' lawyers used as an example."
A federal judge allowed a consolidated class-action lawsuit by multiple authors against OpenAI and Microsoft to move forward. The plaintiffs include high-profile authors who allege that their books were ingested without permission to train large language models and that resulting AI outputs resembled their copyrighted works. US District Judge Sidney Stein pointed to a ChatGPT-generated idea for a sequel in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" universe as an example that could have violated copyright. The judge ruled that a reasonable jury could find substantial similarity but did not resolve whether OpenAI is protected by fair use.
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