‘Game of Thrones’ Author, Grisham Sue OpenAI Over Copyright (2)

The country’s oldest and largest organization representing writers and authors sued OpenAI LP for copyright infringement, alleging that the company’s large language models engage in “systematic theft on a mass scale.”

The Authors Guild, which has been at the center of other precedent-setting copyright cases against the tech industry, filed the proposed class action in Manhattan federal court alongside more than a dozen well-known authors such as George R.R. Martin and John Grisham.

The organization had called on top AI companies including OpenAI, Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc., and Microsoft Corp. to seek writers’ consent ...