Pulitzer-Winning Author Adds New Copyright Suit Against OpenAI

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon and four other authors sued OpenAI Inc. for copyright infringement, the latest in a crop of suits challenging the artificial intelligence training methods behind ChatGPT.

• ChatGPT is trained on hundreds of thousands of books that were obtained through pirated online “shadow libraries,” according to the complaint, which was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
• “The OpenAI Books2 dataset includes books copied from these ‘shadow libriares,’ because those are the sources of trainable books most similar in nature and size to OpenAI’s descriptions of Books2,” the complaint said.
• Chabon, who ...