A number of visual artists have filed suit over use of their images as training data for text-to-image generators. Now, two well-known novelists have filed their own class-action suit against OpenAI, accusing the company behind ChatGPT and Bing Chat of copyright infringement because it allegedly used their books as training data. This appears to be the first lawsuit filed over the use of text (as opposed to images or code) being used as training data.
In the lawsuit filed in the United…
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