Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully 'ingesting' their books

Mona Awad, whose books include Bunny and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, and Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World, filed the class action complaint to a San Francisco federal court last week. ChatGPT allows users to ask questions and type commands into a chatbot and responds with text that resembles human language patterns. The model underlying ChatGPT is trained with data that is publicly available on the internet. Sample summaries are included in the lawsuit as exhibits. The lawsuit will explore the uncertain "borders of the legality" of actions within the generative AI space, he adds.