Game of Thrones Writer George R.R. Martin Joins Copyrights Lawsuit Against OpenAI

ChatGPT itself admitted that it has likely been fed with unauthorized copies of copyrighted works as training material.

Author George R.R. Martin arrives at the premiere for the third season of the HBO television series "Game of Thrones" at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on March 18, 2013. Matt Sayles/Invision/AP

“Game of Thrones” and “Elden Ring” writer George R. R. Martin is joining a coalition of over a dozen authors to sue OpenAI in a bid to stop the ChatGPT developer from using their copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.

Originally a non-profit AI research organization, OpenAI is now a Microsoft-backed, $30 million for-profit company. In the battle to dominate the AI market, OpenAI established itself as a frontrunner last November by launching AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, which gained 100 million users faster than any software product that came before it.