In the OpenAI suit, the trio offers exhibits showing that when prompted, ChatGPT will summarize their books, infringing on their copyrights. Silverman’s Bedwetter is the first book shown being summarized by ChatGPT in the exhibits, while Golden’s book Ararat is also used as an example, as is Kadrey’s book Sandman Slim. The claim says the chatbot never bothered to “reproduce any of the copyright management information Plaintiffs included with their published works.”
It’s over the summaries of the books.
This is from The Verge’s article:
If The Verge is correct and the lawsuit is over summaries, I don’t see how the lawsuit would have any legal standing. But, then again, this SCOTUS hasn’t really concerned itself with the legal standing requirement in lawsuits, so the lawsuit could hold but for the wrong reasons.
Under a sane legal system, the plaintiffs could only hope to get the summaries properly cited. But, we aren’t exactly under a sane legal system.