OpenAI Legal Troubles Mount With Suit Over AI Training on Novels

OpenAI Inc. was hit with another class action copyright lawsuit claiming its enormously popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is trained on books without permission from the authors.

The complaint filed in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday said ChatGPT’s machine learning training dataset comes from books and other texts that are “copied by OpenAI without consent, without credit, and without compensation.”

OpenAI and other generative AI companies have faced a barrage of intellectual property and privacy lawsuits in recent months as Congress and government regulators look to reign in the burgeoning industry.

This week, OpenAI was sued ...