ChatGPT under the magnifying glass of justice!  A pair of veteran journalists filed a lawsuit in the United States against OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, in which they claim that the company used their published works without permission to train artificial intelligence , according to the AP (Associated Press) news agency .

In a report published last week, the AP reports that 81-year-old reporter and reporter Nicholas Basbanes began to have contact with synthetically intelligent chatbots . He found the technology fascinating, but prone to “falsehoods and lack of attribution of credit.”

So he teamed up with his fellow professional, Nicholas Gage, 84, to sue the companies behind the tool , the report says.

ChatGPT was trained to reproduce existing texts, journalists accuse

The journalists say, according to the report , that with the help of Microsoft, OpenAI used works and trained artificial intelligence chatbots to reproduce texts similar to those written by humans, without asking permission or compensating the writers.

The news outlet says Microsoft and OpenAI did not respond to attempts to contact them.

On his website, Nicholas Basbanes describes himself as the author of acclaimed satire books . The reporter ‘s works focus on literary culture and include books such as “On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History,” in which he examines the invention and uses of paper.

Nicholas Gage is an investigative journalist whose stories were adapted into the film Eleni (1985), which tells the story of a woman – Gage’s mother – who died during the social war in Greece.

According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit filed by the two journalists has been included in another case, led by authors such as George RR Martin (Game of Thrones) and could become a class action.

The lawsuit is being heard by the same judge who is handling copyright claims filed by newspapers such as The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, the AP reports.

Source : Folhapress