OpenAI Inc. was sued for the fifth time in five months over copyright infringement, this time by an author in Manhattan federal court days after the leading AI company’s board fired its founder and CEO, Sam Altman.
The proposed class action from journalist and nonfiction author Julian Sancton is the latest copyright challenge from authors and artists arguing that popular generative AI chatbots and text-to-image products are trained on copyrighted text and images without permission. Sancton, author of the best-selling nonfiction book “Madhouse at the End of the Earth,” argued that OpenAI and its partner Microsoft Corp. “completely disregarded” the ...
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