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t;letter-spacing:0.5px"> suit</a>, first reported by <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-01/mona-awad-paul-tremblay-sue-openai-claiming-copyright-infringement-chatgpt" class="gmail-" target="_self" style="color:rgb(0,93,199);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:2px solid;font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">The Los Angeles Times</a>, claims OpenAI profited from “stolen writing and ideas” and seeks monetary damages for all writers whose works were allegedly used to develop ChatGPT.</span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph gmail-| gmail-gutter_20_0" style="font-size:18px;line-height:1.8;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;margin:20px 0px"><span class="gmail-html-render">Through his literary agent, <a href="https://www.paultremblay.net/" class="gmail-" target="_self" style="color:rgb(0,93,199);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:2px solid;font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">Tremblay</a>, who teaches math at St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, declined Friday to comment on the lawsuit.</span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph gmail-| gmail-gutter_20_0" style="font-size:18px;line-height:1.8;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;margin:20px 0px"><span class="gmail-html-render">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.</span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph gmail-| gmail-gutter_20_0" style="font-size:18px;line-height:1.8;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;margin:20px 0px"><span class="gmail-html-render">“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, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wiBHEACNHs" class="gmail-" target="_self" style="color:rgb(0,93,199);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:2px solid;font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">Knock at the Cabin</a>,” was<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/02/arts/apocalypse-now-m-night-shyamalans-knock-cabin-poses-question/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link" class="gmail-" target="_self" style="color:rgb(0,93,199);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:2px solid;font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px"> released </a>earlier this year.</span></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-left:0px;margin-right:auto"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.forsdick.com/resume/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Harry Forsdick</a><br><a href="http://lexingtonphotoscan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Lexington Photo Scanning</a><br><a href="http://lexingtontmma.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Town Meeting Member Precinct 7</a><br><a href="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">harry@forsdick.com</a><br></font><a href="http://www.forsdick.com/" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.forsdick.com</a><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></td><td width="5"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></td><td valign="top" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://goo.gl/xZXT2F" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">46 Burlington St.<br>Lexington, MA 02420</a><br><a href="callto:17817996002" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(781) 799-6002 (mobile)</a><br><font color="#0b5394"><a href="http://meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick" target="_blank">meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick</a> (video)</font><br><a href="http://forsdick.weebly.com/home/my-websites" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Click</a> to see my other websites<br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>