Authors sue OpenAI, allege ChatGPT was trained on their books without consent

Two authors filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that their copyrighted books were used to train ChatGPT without their consent.

last week alleging that their copyrighted books were used to train the company's artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, without their consent.

Paul Tremblay, the author of "The Cabin at the End of the World," and Mona Awad, the author of "Bunny" and "13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl," claim that ChatGPT generates "very accurate summaries" of their works, according to the complaint. They allege the summaries are "only possible" if ChatGPT was trained on their books, which would be a violation of copyright law.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment. Lawyers for Tremblay and Awad did not immediately respond. ChatGPT automatically generates text based on written prompts in a fashion that's much more advanced and creative than the chatbots of Silicon Valley's past. The technology was developed by San Francisco-based OpenAI, a research company led by Sam Altman and backed byThe chatbot is trained on an enormous amount of text data.

"At no point did ChatGPT reproduce any of the copyright management information Plaintiffs included with their published works," the complaint states.

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