In a move towards tackling AI plagiarism, over 8,000 authors have collectively expressed their concerns in an open letter initiated by the US Authors Guild, urging the leaders of six major AI companies to seek consent and offer compensation for using their copyrighted work to train models.

The letter, directed at the CEOs of OpenAI, Alphabet, Stability AI, Meta, IBM, and Microsoft, asserts that the existence of generative AI technologies, based on large language models (LLMs), is indebted to the writings of these authors. “Generative AI technologies built on large language models owe their existence to our writings.”

The authors argue that these AI systems mimic and reproduce their language, stories, styles, and ideas, effectively benefiting from millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry without any compensation.

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Pandey, M. (2023, July 19). 8000 Authors Petition OpenAI, Google, Meta and Microsoft to Pay for AI Plagiarism. Analytics India Magazine. https://analyticsindiamag.com/openai-google-meta-microsoft-asked-to-pay-8000-authors-for-ai-plagiarism/