The Authors Guild and seventeen globally recognized writers have filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, accusing it of copyright infringement.

"An increasing number of authors are suing OpenAI for copyright violations, joining other writers in a legal action against companies employing artificial intelligence for using their books to train AI models," reports The Verge .

Among the plaintiffs are renowned authors such as Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult. In their lawsuit, they allege that OpenAI wholesale copied plaintiffs works without permission or review and used copyrighted materials in large language models.

The plaintiffs added that OpenAI's actions could harm the market for writers who earn income from their works. The authors contend that such steps may lead to the creation of derivative works that "base, imitate, generalise, or paraphrase" their books.

In July, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated an investigation into OpenAI's operations, the company behind the artificial intelligence-based chatbot ChatGPT, examining potential violations of the Consumer Protection Act.