Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the authors' copyrights.
Several legal challenges have been filed over material used to train cutting-edge AI systems.
ChatGPT and other generative AI systems create content using large amounts of data scraped from the internet.
Tremblay and Awad's lawsuit said books are a "key ingredient" because they offer the "best examples of high-quality longform writing."
The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of money damages on behalf of a nationwide class of copyright owners whose works OpenAI allegedly misused.
Persons:
OpenAI, Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad, Matthew Butterick, Microsoft's, ChatGPT, Tremblay, Awad, Blake Brittain, David Bario, Richard Chang
Organizations:
OpenAI, Microsoft Corp, Stability, Thomson
Locations:
San Francisco federal, . Massachusetts, Washington