{"id":43465,"date":"2024-01-07T21:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T02:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=43465"},"modified":"2024-01-07T21:13:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T02:13:44","slug":"microsoft-openai-face-another-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-from-nonfiction-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-openai-face-another-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-from-nonfiction-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, OpenAI face another copyright infringement lawsuit from nonfiction authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nonfiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims the defendants used the authors&#8217; copyrighted works to develop a billion-dollar AI system. This follows a similar suit by The New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI, creators of the AI chatbot ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points from the Lawsuit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alleged Infringement:<\/strong>The authors assert that their works were used without permission to train large language models, including ChatGPT.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Class Action Claim:<\/strong> Basbanes and Gage seek to represent a class of authors whose works have been similarly used by the defendants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Damages Sought:<\/strong> The lawsuit demands up to $150,000 in damages for each infringed work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Broader Implications:<\/strong> This case joins a growing list of legal challenges to AI developers over the use of copyrighted material in training AI models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenAI is reportedly trying to negotiate with a number of publishers, perhaps hoping to avoid further lawsuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonfiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims the defendants used the authors&#8217; copyrighted works to develop a billion-dollar AI system. This follows a similar suit by The New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI, creators of the AI chatbot ChatGPT. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9,215],"tags":[62,772,275],"class_list":["post-43465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-todays-news","category-top-stories","tag-microsoft","tag-openai","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43467,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43465\/revisions\/43467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}