Writers Suing OpenAI Fire Back At Company's Copyright Defense

A group of authors who sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI have rejected the company's argument that claimed their copyrights were not violated and the case should be dismissed, according to a Reuters report.

The authors in their court filing said that OpenAI has violated US law by copying their works to train an artificial intelligence system that is supposed to replace the very writings it copied.

The writers stressed that the Microsoft backed company clearly intends to unilaterally rewrite US copyright law in its favour.

OpenAI had not commented on the court motion by Thursday. However, reports claimed that writers are confident that their charges will be sustained.

Meanwhile copyright owners have filed several recent lawsuits against tech majors, including Meta Platforms, Stability AI and OpenAI for using their work to train generative AI software.

According to the report, OpenAI has asked the court to dismiss the parts of the California lawsuits on the company in August, arguing that ChatGPT does not violate the authors' rights. 

It had also denied the authors' core allegation that states the Chatbot-maker has used their books to train ChatGPT infringing their copyrights but did not request the court to dismiss the claims on that basis.

The report added the writers on Wednesday had reiterated their argument that the large language model and its creations are derivative works of their books and violates their copyrights. 

They also underlined OpenAI's argument that ChatGPT's output is not similar enough to their work to breach their rights and labelled it as 'flat wrong'. The writers said OpenAI had directly copied their works.