Case tracker · Copyright & training data
Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Inc.
- AI system / company
- OpenAI GPT models / ChatGPT
- Jurisdiction
- United States (New York)
- Court / regulator
- U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.
- Status
- Ongoing
What happened
The Authors Guild and 17 authors including George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, and Jodi Picoult filed a class action alleging their books were copied from pirate repositories to train GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 without permission. The suit claims this infringes copyright and harms authors’ livelihoods; the case is proceeding in the Southern District of New York.
About copyright & training data cases
Claims that generative-AI models were trained on copyrighted works — articles, books, images — without permission or compensation.
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