George R.R. Martin and other authors say OpenAI stole their books to train ChatGPT: 'We are here to fight'

A group of 17 authors, including Game of Thrones novelist George R.R. Martin, have filed a class action lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on behalf of fiction writers who believe that their work was used to train the generative AI chatbot.

The lawsuit is being organized by advocacy group The Authors Guild, which said in a statement that "generative AI threatens to decimate the author profession" and that it has filed the lawsuit "because of the profound unfairness and danger of using...