New York CNN —A group of famous fiction writers joined the Authors Guild in filing a class action suit against OpenAI on Wednesday, alleging the company’s technology is illegally using their copyrighted work.
Martin, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen are among the 17 prominent authors who joined the suit led by the Authors Guild, a professional organization that protects writers’ rights.
“Generative AI threatens to decimate the author profession,” the Authors Guild wrote in a press release Wednesday.
Two other authors sued OpenAI in June over the company’s alleged misuse of their works to train ChatGPT.
Authors should have the right to decide when their works are used to ‘train’ AI,” author Jonathan Franzen said in the release on Wednesday.
Persons:
OpenAI, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Rasenberger, “, Sarah Silverman, Silverman –, ” Sam Altman, Rasenberger, James Patterson, Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood —, ”
Organizations:
New, New York CNN, OpenAI, Authors, of, CNN, Amazon, Meta, San, Microsoft
Locations:
New York, Southern, of New York, San Francisco federal