Article by Ars Technica: Various prominent writers like John Grisham, George R. R. Martin, David Baldacci and others are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI for copyright infringement and unfair business practices.
GRRM just mad AI will finish the series before he does.
The show left such a bad taste in my mouth, I forgot we were still waiting on books.
I’m pretty sure he forgot too
One of the major problems for him seems to be that the show left such a bad taste in his mouth too. In some interviews he hinted at that and also that the show’s horrible ending messed with the plans he had had for the books.
I believe the claims that OpenAI scrolled not just libraries of books with rights expired but pirated works where rights are still active. And they said they “used the entire internet” as a way of hidinf behind it like they had no choice but to do this. Not only is not choosing a choice in itself, I think this was intentional.
Yeah, I have very little doubt that this is what happened. They probably never bothered to restrict their crawlers and just let them crawl all piracy sites too.