Nonfiction authors sue OpenAI, Microsoft over copyright infringement.

A group of nonfiction authors has filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of copyright infringement. The authors claim that their copyrighted materials were used without their consent to train the AI chatbot ChatGPT. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft have ignored copyright laws for their own financial gain. The plaintiffs are seeking damages, restitution, and a permanent halt to the infringement. This lawsuit is part of a larger trend of legal challenges against the use of copyrighted materials in AI platforms. [Extracted from the article]