Article by Ars Technica: Various prominent writers like John Grisham, George R. R. Martin, David Baldacci and others are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI for copyright infringement and unfair business practices.

  • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    My only question is why are individual authors doing the suing and not the publishers?

    For every mega-author like GRRM or Sanderson there are tens of thousands of authors that cannot afford to do anything about their works being stolen by LLMs. With how big a cut publishing takes it would make sense if publishers negotiate on behalf of all their authors. Instead, the big four in the US seem to be chasing after non-issues like limiting library and Internet Archive access, while leaving the real issues with AI out to dry…

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      1 year ago

      It’s a legal thing: The owners of the copyright have to sue and in the book publishing business that’s usually the author. I assume that the publishers are involved too, but not as the official plaintiffs.