Authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement, claim ChatGPT unlawfully ‘ingested’ their books

Authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad filed a class-action complaint in California federal court alleging OpenAI broke copyright law by training its software to “ingest” their books without permission.

ChatGPT, a large language model, is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting expressive information from it to form a compilation of input material known as the “training dataset,” according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Fr