Authors sue Nvidia over alleged copyright infringement due to AI usage: Details
1 year ago

Authors sue Nvidia over alleged copyright infringement due to AI usage: Details

India TV News  

Authors sue Nvidia over alleged copyright infringement due to AI usage: Details The lawsuit drags Nvidia into a growing body of litigation by writers and the New York Times over generative AI, which creates new content based on inputs such as text, images and sounds. Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language before being taken down in October "due to reported copyright infringement." In a proposed class action filed on Friday night in San Francisco federal court, the authors said the takedown reflects Nvidia's having "admitted" it trained NeMo on the dataset and thereby infringed their copyrights. Nvidia The lawsuit drags Nvidia into a growing body of litigation by writers and the New York Times over generative AI, which creates new content based on inputs such as text, images and sounds.

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Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases. The media and technology company filed a lawsuit against Ross Intelligence — a now-defunct legal research firm — in 2020, arguing they had used materials from Thomson Reuters’ own legal platform Westlaw to train an AI model …

Hollywood writers say AI is ripping off their work. They want studios to sue
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Hollywood writers say AI is ripping off their work. They want studios to sue

LA Times  

When the Writers Guild of America approved a contract with major studios in 2023, ending a 148-day strike, the union gained significant guardrails around artificial intelligence in Hollywood. John Rogers, a 58-year-old screenwriter in L.A., has spent years co-creating the world of TV drama series “Leverage.” After experimenting with ChatGPT, Rogers said he and the show’s creative team suspected that …

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
55 years, 3 months ago

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

Wired  

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform. But it’s now clear that the case—filed more than two years before the generative AI boom began—was the first strike in a much …

Nvidia faces lawsuit by three authors. Reason? AI use of copyrighted works
1 year ago

Nvidia faces lawsuit by three authors. Reason? AI use of copyrighted works

Hindustan Times  

Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language, before being taken down in …

Award-Winning Authors Go Up Against OpenAI And Microsoft For Copyright Lawsuit
1 year, 3 months ago

Award-Winning Authors Go Up Against OpenAI And Microsoft For Copyright Lawsuit

News 18  

– A group of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing books the authors have written to train the models behind OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence based software. The writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Taylor Branch, Stacy Schiff and Kai Bird – who co-wrote the J. Robert …

Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers' warnings, authors allege
1 year, 3 months ago

Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers' warnings, authors allege

The Hindu  

Meta Platforms' lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit initially brought this summer. The new filing late on Monday night consolidates two lawsuits brought against the Facebook and Instagram owner by comedian …

Books by J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh part of 183,000-book dataset used for AI training: Report
1 year, 6 months ago

Books by J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh part of 183,000-book dataset used for AI training: Report

The Hindu  

Books by famous authors such as J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh, Rupi Kaur, and Neil Gaiman are part of a dataset of pirated books known as Books3, which has been used by large companies to train their generative AI models, according to a report by The Atlantic. The news publication made available a searchable database of the dataset called ‘Books3,’ which …

John Grisham and George RR Martin sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
1 year, 6 months ago

John Grisham and George RR Martin sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

India Today  

John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George RR Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission. In papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the authors alleged “flagrant and harmful infringements …

John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
1 year, 6 months ago

John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

LA Times  

John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. In papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the authors alleged “flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights” and called the ChatGPT program a “massive commercial enterprise” that is reliant upon “systematic theft on a mass scale.” The suit was organized by the Authors Guild and also includes David Baldacci, …

More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
1 year, 6 months ago

More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training

The Hindu  

A group of U.S. authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT. Chabon, playwright David Henry Hwang and authors Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder and Ayelet Waldman said in their lawsuit on Friday that OpenAI copied …

Thousands of writers demand AI stop using work without permission
1 year, 8 months ago

Thousands of writers demand AI stop using work without permission

Al Jazeera  

Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen and James Patterson among signatories of letter organised by the Authors Guild. Thousands of writers have added their names to a letter calling on AI companies to stop using copyrighted work without permission. Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the prominent authors endorsing the letter addressed to the …

Sarah Silverman and novelists sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for ingesting their books
1 year, 8 months ago

Sarah Silverman and novelists sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for ingesting their books

Associated Press  

Ask ChatGPT about comedian Sarah Silverman’s memoir “The Bedwetter” and the artificial intelligence chatbot can come up with a detailed synopsis of every part of the book. Silverman’s lawsuit says she never gave permission for OpenAI to ingest the digital version of her 2010 book to train its AI models, and it was likely stolen from a “shadow library” of …

Bestselling authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay sue OpenAI over copyright infringement
1 year, 9 months ago

Bestselling authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay sue OpenAI over copyright infringement

LA Times  

Two bestselling novelists filed a suit against OpenAI in a San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company used copyright-protected intellectual property to “train” its artificial intelligence chatbot. According to the suit, much of the material that OpenAI uses to train its generative chatbots comes from copyrighted works, including books written by Awad …

Lawsuit says OpenAI violated U.S. authors' copyrights to train AI chatbot
1 year, 9 months ago

Lawsuit says OpenAI violated U.S. authors' copyrights to train AI chatbot

The Hindu  

Two U.S. authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the authors' copyrights. Tremblay and Awad's lawsuit said books …

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