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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu and OC_Formula for the clue delivery! IT House, September 21 / PRNewswire-Asianet /-- 17 writers, including John Grisham (John Grisham), Jody Pickett (Jodi Picoult) and Game of Thrones author George R. Martin (George R.R. Martin), recently filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company's artificial intelligence program ChatGPT of "massive and systematic theft" of their copyright works. This is one of a series of recent legal actions taken by writers against the infringement of artificial intelligence.

According to a complaint filed in federal court in New York on Tuesday, the plaintiff claimed that the ChatGPT program "blatantly and injuriously infringed the copyright registered by the plaintiff" and called it a "huge commercial product that relies on large-scale systematic theft".

The lawsuit was organized by the American Writers Association (Authors Guild), and other writers involved include David Baldach (David Baldacci), Sylvia Sylvia Day (Sylvia Day), Jonathan Franzen (Jonathan Franzen) and Erin Hildebrand (Elin Hilderbrand).

"We must stop this theft, or we will destroy our extraordinary literary culture, which is the source of many other creative industries in the United States," Mary Rasenberger, chief executive of the American Writers Association, said in a statement. Great books are usually written by people who have spent their careers and lives learning and perfecting their skills. In order to protect our literature, authors must be able to control whether and how their works are used by generative artificial intelligence. "

The complaint lists specific examples of each author's search for the ChatGPT program, such as a search by Martin that showed that the program generated "A Dawn of Direwolves", a prequel to the "Song of Ice and Fire" series, and used the same characters from Martin's existing books.

A spokesman for OpenAI said in a statement on Wednesday that the company respects "the rights of writers and authors and believes that they should benefit from artificial intelligence technology." We are engaged in a fruitful dialogue with many creators around the world, including the American Writers Association, and have been working together to understand and discuss their concerns about artificial intelligence. We are optimistic that we will continue to find mutually beneficial ways to work together to help people take advantage of new technologies in a rich content ecosystem. "

IT House noted that earlier this month, several writers, including Michael Chabon and David Henry Hwang, also filed lawsuits against OpenAI for "apparent infringement of intellectual property rights".

In August, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to dismiss two similar lawsuits, one involving comedian Sarah Silverman and the other involving writer Paul Tremblay. In a court filing, OpenAI said the allegations "misunderstood the scope of copyright and failed to take into account the limitations and exceptions (including fair use) that properly set aside space for innovations such as large language models that are now at the forefront of artificial intelligence."

Writers' opposition to artificial intelligence has also prompted Amazon, the largest book retailer in the United States, to change its e-book policy, and the online giant now requires writers who want to publish through its Kindle Direct Program to inform Amazon in advance whether they use artificial intelligence-generated materials. Amazon also limits the number of new books that authors can publish on Kindle Direct each day, up to three, to limit the proliferation of artificial intelligence books.

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