Looking to curb the unauthorized use of copyrighted works, the Authors Guild and several prominent authors are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI, alleging that the company fed their copyrighted works into its large language model as training data.

Filed in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, the class action lawsuit—which includes 13 authors and the Authors Guild—highlighted instances of ChatGPT being used to impersonate specific writers and create “low quality” ebooks. Authors joining the lawsuit include Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon creator George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult, Michael Connelly, Elin Hilderbrand, and Christina Baker Kline.

“Unfairly, and perversely, without plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on which to ‘train’ their LLMs, defendants would have no commercial product with which to damage—if not usurp—the market for these professional authors’ works,” attorneys for the Authors Guild said in the lawsuit, Authors Guild vs OpenAI. “Defendants’ willful copying thus makes plaintiffs’ works into engines of their own destruction.”

In the case of Martin, the lawsuit said ChatGPT was used to create poor imitations of the author’s long awaited sequels to his massively popular book series.

“When prompted, ChatGPT generated an infringing, unauthorized, and detailed outline for an alternate sequel to A Clash of Ki

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