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Authors Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad file lawsuit against ChatGPT creator
OpenAIThey
contend the AI chatbot unlawfully ‘ingested’ their copyrighted work
By Mark Shanahan
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/mark-shanahan/?p1=Article_Byline>
Globe Staff,Updated July 9, 2023, 2:36 p.m.
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[image: Novelists Paul Tremblay (pictured) and Mona Awad have filed a
lawsuit against OpenAI, the makers of ChatGBT, claiming the company used
their copyrighted work to train their chatbot.]Novelists Paul Tremblay
(pictured) and Mona Awad have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the makers of
ChatGBT, claiming the company used their copyrighted work to train their
chatbot.HANDOUT

Stoughton author Paul Tremblay is suing OpenAI, the company that created
the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/13/chatgpt-explainer-what-can-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-do-ai>,
claiming his 2018 novel, “The Cabin at the End of the World
<https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=The+Cabin+at+the+End+of+the+World>,”
was used to train the AI chatbot.

In the lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, Tremblay and
novelist Mona Awad contend ChatGPT “ingested” their copyrighted work and
generated “very accurate summaries” of the novels without the writers’
permission.

The suit <https://llmlitigation.com/pdf/03223/tremblay-openai-complaint.pdf>,
first reported by The Los Angeles Times
<https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-01/mona-awad-paul-tremblay-sue-openai-claiming-copyright-infringement-chatgpt>,
claims OpenAI profited from “stolen writing and ideas” and seeks monetary
damages for all writers whose works were allegedly used to develop ChatGPT.

Through his literary agent, Tremblay <https://www.paultremblay.net/>, who
teaches math at St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, declined Friday to
comment on the lawsuit.

ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is
designed to produce natural and lifelike responses to prompts from users.
OpenAI hasn’t disclosed what data it used to train ChatGPT, but has said it
drew from work available on the Internet, including archived books and
Wikipedia.

“The Cabin at the End of the World,” which won the Horror Writers
Association’s Bram Stoker Award in 2019, has been adapted for the big
screen by “Sixth Sense” director M. Night Shyamalan. The film, “Knock at
the Cabin <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wiBHEACNHs>,” was released
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/02/arts/apocalypse-now-m-night-shyamalans-knock-cabin-poses-question/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link>earlier
this year.



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