'Game of Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin, John Grisham Join Lawsuit Against ChatGPT Developer OpenAI

The Authors Guild, and a group of prominent fiction authors including Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Michael Connelly, and Jodi Picoult have reportedly filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that its AI technology is infringing on their work.

The authors say OpenAI copied their works “wholesale, without permission or consideration,” and that the AI company fed their works into large language models, “algorithms designed to output human-seeming text responses to users’ prompts and queries,” according to a report by Deadline.

The lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT “accurately generated summaries” of specific works by Grisham, using the same exact characters from existing books.