Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and applications have generated a lot of attention in recent months and have firmly entrenched themselves in our daily lives. As ChatGPT continues to delight users worldwide, it has been reported that two authors have now sued its parent firm OpenAl for alleged copyright infringement.

According to Reuters, American authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad filed a lawsuit against OpenAl in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday, alleging that the business improperly exploited their works to “train” ChatGPT, a well-known generative AI system.

It is well known that ChatGPT and other similar Al chatbots produce material based on information found online. As a result, the authors claim that ChatGPT violated their copyrights by stealing information from many publications without their consent or the publishers’. Books are one of the primary sources for ChatGPT, according to their lawsuit, as they are the “best examples of high-quality longform writing.”

“Numerous legal complaints have been made about training materials for cutting-edge Al systems. Source-code owners who are suing OpenAl and Microsoft’s GitHub are among the plaintiffs, as are graphic artists who are suing Stability Al, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.

According to Reuters, the defendants in the complaint contend that their systems make appropriate use of copyrighted content.
Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, the authors, have each written a number of books. Among Wad’s novels are “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl,” “Bunny,” and other titles. Meanwhile, M. Night Shyamalan turned Tremblay’s book “The Cabin at the End of the World” into the movie “Knock at the Cabin.”

According to Reuters, “The action demands unspecified monetary damages on behalf of a class of copyright owners across the country whose works OpenAl is said to have improperly used: