A group of seventeen writers, including John Grisham and W game of thronesContent creator George RR Martin is suing the creator of ChatGPT for copyright infringement. Using ChatGPT, from manufacturer OpenAI, users can create texts by asking the program questions. The answers provided are based on millions of scripts used to train the program.

The lawsuit, which was filed in New York, is an initiative of the American Writers Group. Writers David Baldacci, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen, and others have also joined the lawsuit against OpenAI.

ChatGPT is already being used by people to write scripts similar to those of famous authors. So said a fan of the popular book series A song about ice and fire By Martin ChatGPT to write the last two unpublished parts in the author’s style, a news site reported IGN In July. The program used Martin’s previous texts as a reference.

Although fans do not sell the scripts, the association cites them as an example of how AI “steals” characters and writing style from their authors. The authors’ books are used by OpenAI to train ChatGPT.

Without these texts, “OpenAI’s commercial product would have looked very different,” the interest group notes. The Authors Guild believes that writers’ livelihoods are at risk if their texts are used without compensation.

There are already several lawsuits against OpenAI from writers who claim that there is plagiarism in the scripts that ChatGPT generates. The case of the seventeen authors is perhaps the largest to date.

The Authors Guild has previously warned of copyright violations. The association sent an email to more than 10,000 writers Signed open letter For large technology companies that use artificial intelligence to generate texts.

Screenwriters and screenwriters are also interested in using artificial intelligence. That’s one reason why members of the Screen Actors Guild, the screenwriters’ union in the United States, have been on strike for months. They fear that in the future, movie studios will use AI to write screenplays based on their past work, causing a loss of revenue. They want clear agreements about this with the movie studios.