“Michael Chabon, Other Literary Giants Sue OpenAI Over Alleged Copyright Infringement”
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” is one of my favorite books. My worn paperback copy is much loved. And regardless of how many times OpenAI and other AI companies claim their AI is “innovative” and thus falls under Fair Use, they still didn’t pay for any of it. Even those who write fan fiction originally paid to watch the movie or read the literary work the thing they are riffing is based on. Why? Because they love that material so much that they want to create new stories and new worlds based on it.
What AI does in the creative world isn’t novel, in actuality, it is the exact opposite, it is collage — stealing little pieces from everywhere. Or, if the prompt is specific enough, a lot of little pieces from the same place. If someone asks ChatGPT to write an additional chapter of Kavalier & Clay or another episode of The Escapist, we all know it is basing that solely on the source material and taking its ideas and design from the original … what do we call that again? Oh, yeah, there is a term for that, “derivative works”, and that is copyright protected.
It may just be me, but I am so tired of big corporations or “innovators” hiding behind “innovation” as the excuse for ripping people off. To be clear, I own a first edition “Atlas Shrugged” though I am no libertarian, I do believe in innovation, but not when you steal other people’s works in the process.
