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Grisham, Martin join Authors Guild suit against OpenAI

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Popular authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen and George R.R. Martin have joined a lawsuit against OpenAI.

The Authors Guild suit alleges OpenAI's large language models used to power ChatGPT are violating copyright laws by training on pirated versions of the authors' books.

“Generative AI is a vast new field for Silicon Valley's longstanding exploitation of content providers," Franzen said in a statement provided to Ars Technica. "Authors should have the right to decide when their works are used to ‘train’ AI. If they choose to opt in, they should be appropriately compensated.”

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