The lawsuit by authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage follows the acknowledgment by OpenAI in its lawsuit with The New York Times that copyright owners, including the plaintiffs, should be compensated for the use of their work.
OpenAI and Microsoft have been hit with another copyright infringement lawsuit. Nonfiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage sued the two companies, alleging that the defendants stole their copyrighted works to help build its artificial intelligence (AI) system.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday, Jan. 5, in a Manhattan federal court, comes a week after The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI in a similar copyright infringement complaint that alleges the companies used the newspaper’s content to train AI chatbots.
The latest legal action follows OpenAI’s acknowledgment that copyright owners, including the plaintiffs, should be compensated for the use of their work. The NYT lawsuit is pursuing “billions of dollars” in damages.
