OpenAI, alongside Microsoft, is facing a fresh wave of legal challenges over copyright infringement. The latest lawsuit, filed in a Manhattan federal court on January 5th, comes from nonfiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage. They allege that their copyrighted works were used without permission to develop OpenAI's artificial intelligence systems. This lawsuit follows a similar complaint by The New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI, seeking billions of dollars in damages for using the newspaper’s content to train AI chatbots.
The Basbanes and Gage lawsuit seeks damages of up to $150,000 for each instance of copyright infringement. This series of lawsuits highlights the growing concerns among content creators about the use of their work in training AI systems. In September, a proposed class-action lawsuit was initiated against OpenAI by a New York-based professional organization for published writers led by the Authors Guild. Additionally, author Julian Sancton is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using his work to train AI models. OpenAI is also facing a different class-action lawsuit in California, filed by Clarkson Law Firm, alleging that ChatGPT was trained using data scraped from the internet without user consent.
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