Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” [Updated]
arstechnica.com
Authors claim ChatGPT wouldn’t exist without their books.

Article by Ars Technica: Various prominent writers like John Grisham, George R. R. Martin, David Baldacci and others are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI for copyright infringement and unfair business practices.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I believe the claims that OpenAI scrolled not just libraries of books with rights expired but pirated works where rights are still active. And they said they “used the entire internet” as a way of hidinf behind it like they had no choice but to do this. Not only is not choosing a choice in itself, I think this was intentional.

    • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I have very little doubt that this is what happened. They probably never bothered to restrict their crawlers and just let them crawl all piracy sites too.