The authors claim OpenAI is seeking more favorable conditions in New York following a California court’s rejection of its proposed litigation schedule.
Authors including Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, who are suing artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI for copyright infringement, have urged a California court to dismiss parallel lawsuits filed by The New York Times (NYT), John Grisham and others in New York.
In a court document filed on Thursday, Feb. 8, the authors argued that permitting the copycat lawsuits — including the NYTs case and a prior one initiated by the Authors Guild on behalf of Grisham and others — would lead to “inconsistent rulings in overlapping class actions” and be a misuse of court resources.
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman and two other authors, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI’s ChatGPT over copyright infringement in July 2023. The lawsuit alleged that when ChatGPT generates summaries of the author’s work, it indicates the training via copyrighted content.
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