Source: Cailian Press

Editor: Niu Zhanlin

On Tuesday (September 19) local time, the copyright battle over artificial intelligence (AI) reached a climax as the American Writers Association officially filed a collective lawsuit against the AI company OpenAI, accusing the latter of abusing copyrighted works in training AI models.

According to court documents, the American Writers Association, the oldest and largest professional organization of writers in the United States, is seeking compensation for what it deems to be blatant and harmful infringement under the Copyright Act.

(Note: Lawsuit document)

The American Writers Association claims that OpenAI has mass-replicated their works without permission or compensation and inputted copyrighted materials into large language models. "These algorithms are at the core of the defendant company, and the core of the algorithms comes from large-scale, systematic theft."

The lawsuit states that writers' livelihoods depend on their creative works, but AI models have caused harm in this regard. OpenAI's large language model allows anyone to summarize or rewrite derivative works of their books, which could harm the interests of the writers.

It is reported that the American Writers Association, representing many well-known writers such as Michael Connolly, Scott Turow, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and George Martin, filed the lawsuit in the Southern District of New York. It is understood that lawsuits against artificial intelligence companies such as Meta Platforms and Stability AI are also underway.

OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies have previously stated that the training data they collect from the internet complies with the scope of "fair use" under U.S. copyright law and does not constitute infringement.

Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the American Writers Association, stated in a statement on Wednesday that in order to protect our literary works, writers must have the ability to control whether and how their works are used by generative artificial intelligence.

The lawsuit also mentioned that ChatGPT is able to generate accurate summaries of authors' works, indicating that their textual content is already included in its database.

The organization also raised other concerns, stating that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT can now rapidly and inexpensively generate large amounts of convincing text, which could potentially replace writers. It is worth noting that there have been a series of incidents where artificial intelligence "forged" new books by well-known authors and openly sold them.

In addition, as early as July, over 10,000 writers signed a letter urging leaders of companies such as Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Alphabet not to use these writers' works to train AI systems without permission or compensation.

The letter stated: "Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poems provide a 'feast' for artificial intelligence systems, yet this endless 'feast' comes with no bill. You are spending billions of dollars developing AI technology. You should compensate us for using our works, that's fair. Without these works, AI would be mediocre and very limited."

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