Eleven Pulitzer Prize winners sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of abusing their works to train large language models such as ChatGPT, which triggered widespread concern about copyright issues in the artificial intelligence era. This lawsuit not only requires huge financial compensation, but more importantly, requires a cessation of infringement, and lists Microsoft as a defendant for the first time, marking a further escalation of this copyright war. This lawsuit is a continuation of a series of previous similar lawsuits, indicating that the contradiction between AI model training and copyright protection is becoming increasingly acute.
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Eleven Pulitzer Prize winners sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court, accusing them of misusing their work to train large models such as ChatGPT. The lawsuit, which seeks financial damages and a cessation of infringement, is a continuation of an earlier lawsuit that named Microsoft as a defendant for the first time. The era of large AI models has given rise to copyright issues, and the U.S. Northern District Court of California has accepted 10 infringement cases since November. The traditional copyright model has failed in the AI era. Large model training involves many works and complex ownership, and solutions still need to be explored.The outcome of this case will have a profound impact on the development of the artificial intelligence industry and provide an important reference for the training and use of future AI models. How to balance the development of AI technology and the protection of intellectual property rights will become a key issue that needs to be solved in the future. The establishment of a new copyright model and legal framework is imperative.