On Wednesday, OpenAI was sued by two American authors in a federal court in San Francisco. The authors alleged in a proposed class action that OpenAI had improperly utilized their works to “train” its widely-used generative artificial intelligence system, ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined information copied from thousands of books without permission, violating the authors’ copyrights. A lawyer for the authors, Matthew Butterick, declined to comment. Representatives of Microsoft-backed private OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The material used to…

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