Authors and technology firms are engaged in a battle over the use of copyrighted work to train AI chatbots. More than 9,000 authors, including famous names like Dan Brown and Margaret Atwood, have signed an open letter to CEOs of major technology companies expressing concerns about the unauthorized use of their works. The letter argues that AI systems are exploiting authors’ language, style, and ideas without consent or compensation.
Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have drawn attention for their lifelike conversational abilities, but their training involves scraping large amounts of data, including copyrighted material. In addition to the Authors Guild’s open demand letter to AI technology companies, comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors, have taken legal action against OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement. This conflict highlights the challenges tech firms face in handling copyright claims, which may require significant time to resolve.
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