Microsoft, OpenAI face new lawsuits by authors over AI training

Microsoft, OpenAI face new lawsuits by authors over AI training

FILE PHOTO: A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial intelligence models behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT and other AI-based services.