Two writers they filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for using their work to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.
That's what happened a week after the New York Times sued because Microsoft and OpenAI used their articles for training language models (LLM) without express permission.
Authors Nicholas Basbanes (2nd generation Greek-American) and Nicholas Gage (Nikos Gatzoyiannis) filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleging that Microsoft infringed their copyright by using information from their books to train OpenAI's LLM for ChatGPT and other services. The lawsuit also refers to the one filed by the New York Times and notes that Nicholas Gage had worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Mr. Gage is one of America's greatest and most respected investigative reporters. He holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and his work for the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times has influenced the course of major events in American and world history.
The lawsuit seeks to compensate the authors for the use of their work by the tech companies that used the information to train their artificial intelligence models.
In addition, Basbanes and Gage's attorney stated that the tech companies have “access to billions of capital, simply stealing Plaintiffs' copyrighted works to create a billion+ dollar industry. It's outrageous."
Both authors are seeking damages from Microsoft and OpenAI, and that the companies immediately stop using copyrighted project information to train AI models.
