Authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad allege OpenAI 'trained' its ChatGPT tool using their copyrighted books without permission or compensation.
"Indeed, when ChatGPT is prompted, ChatGPT generates summaries of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works — something only possible if ChatGPT was trained on Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works," the 17-page complaint says. "Defendants, by and through the use of ChatGPT, benefit commercial and profit richly from the use of Plaintiffs’ and Class members’ copyrighted materials."
The complaint cites a June 2018 paper in which OpenAI revealed it trained its GPT-1 tool on BookCorpus, a collection of "over 7,000 unique unpublished books from a variety of genres, including Adventure, Fantasy, and Romance." "OpenAI confirmed why a dataset of books was so valuable: ‘Crucially, it contains long stretches of contiguous text, which allows the generative model to learn to condition on long-range information.’ Hundreds of large language models have been trained on BookCorpus, including those made byAuthor Paul Tremblay arrives for the world premiere of Universal Pictures'"Knock at the Cabin" at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City Jan. 30, 2023.
Andres Guadamuz, a reader in intellectual property law at the University of Sussex, told The Guardian the complaint represents the first against OpenAI regarding copyright law. Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, attorneys representing the authors, told the newspaper using books to train large language models is ideal because they contain "high-quality, well-edited, long-form prose," essentially forming "the gold standard of idea storage for our species.
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