Pulitzer Winners Sue Microsoft, OpenAI Over AI Training Data Use
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Several Pulitzer Prize winning authors have joined a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging the companies used their copyrighted work to train AI models without permission.
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Plaintiffs include Kai Bird, Taylor Branch, and Stacy Schiff, who have all won Pulitzers for works like biographies and histories.
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The lawsuit accuses Microsoft and OpenAI of building multi-billion dollar businesses by taking works without paying the authors or following copyright laws.
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It is the latest lawsuit against big tech companies for allegedly using copyrighted material to train AI systems like ChatGPT.
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Other authors suing meta and other companies over similar allegations of using their books without permission to train AI models.