john grisham, michael connelly and others who claim openai used their books to train its chatbot gpt without their permission and without compensation. >> my son said, hey, dad, come over here. when he put in a request to chat, gpt, there were three pages that sounded like a lot of books that i'd written with names of characters that i'd used in the past. and i thought, oh my god, i feel so violated. it's like someone had just taken my entire library without my knowing it. the lawsuit claims openai reproduced copyrighted books without the author's consent to train chatgpt allowing it to produce derivative works, including material that's based on mimics , summarizes or paraphrases the author's work and harms the market for them. >> openai responded to the lawsuit saying, we respect the rights of writers and authors and believe they should benefit from ai technology. but michael connelly, bestselling author of the lincoln lawyer, now a hit netflix series, says he's ready for battle. >> you kind of feel like a little bit like a david vs a goliath in this. but but we're you know, we're

you can win, you gotta act like you can win, which means you got to believe you can win. >> michael connelly lawyer, now a hit netflix series, says he's ready for battle. >> well, you kind of feel like a little bit like a david versus a goliath in this. but but we're you know, we're going to fight the good fight. >> openai responding to the lawsuit saying in a statement, we respect the rights of writers and authors and believe they should benefit from ai technology pg and are working to understand their concerns. >> these class actions are the beginning of many, many lawsuits. >> we saw this in the music industry when napster came along and there were a lot of lawsuit around peer to peer sharing. and then ultimately apple and spotify and amazon came along and they ended up licensing the works. >> i'm rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> and that's it for abc7 news at four. abc abc7 news at five with dan and anna is coming up with dan and anna is coming up next. it's... the side hug. tween milestones like this may start at age 9. hpv vaccination—a type of cancer prevention against certain h

we have michael connelly and dave barry and lauren groff and a number of other really terrific authors. and i'm really looking forward to it. i do a lot of on stage interviews with those authors, and it's a ton of work, but also highlight of my years. well, that's something that booktv should look at coming down to and and attending. but one of the authors that's going to be on the book festival circuit, i think, is walter isaacson with his new biography of elon musk. have you had a chance to review that? i have not yet. i am. i am both. really in it and really i'm not sure how much i'll enjoy it. you know, i'm not sure if i'll love it or be kind of scared by it. is very controversial figure, but a very powerful figure. and and isaacson, of course, is an old pro at handling that kind of person and looking at their lives and their impact. so i am looking forward to reading it. as i said. it's a fascinating subject musk is a fascinating character for, for good or ill. so, colette bancroft, how long have been doing this and how did you get into the business? i have been the book editor at

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stop >> that's just some of what these authors have written others include best sellers like -- michael connellyinge on their work, their copyright, even if it does it in bits and pieces. that it basically takes that material and uses it to train a.i. and creates what it calls new things it's actually mimicking, echoing and using complex math models to take the words and sentence structure itself it's a new type of copying but theft nonetheless. the a.i. companies say it's new stuff and there has to be a space to create and brainstorm second that what chatgpt creates is not sold on a mass market, and third, perhaps most importantly, they claim productive conversations with creator about getting them credit or payment from these system as they evolve. this is a big deal in law and art. probably in politics, too, and we will keep covering these stories for you so we know what's coming at us in the very near future. now, we've got a prosecutor coming up who's going to talk about the return of a very interesting felon who might give us it again and a whole lot more that's next. cks or sharp, stabbin

this morning, two of those writers, michael connelly and david baldacci, are telling gma why they'veen this legal step. >> they shouldn't have taken them and fed it into this machine without even contacting me. i feel so violated. >> it was like someone had just taken my entire library without my knowing it. so what plot twist will come next? >> it's all coming up at 7 a.m. with your gma. first look. i'm rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> a family in north carolina says depending on google maps cost a man his life. the tragedy is now part of a case that includes accusations that the company ignored multiple calls to correct its directions to what became a deadly crossing. jobina is tracking the lawsuit against mountain view based google from the live desk, jobina. thank you, kumasi. >> the family of a father of two killed after driving off a bridge is now suing google, claiming the company's app led to his death. philip paxson was driving home late at night from his daughter's birthday party outside of charlotte, north carolina. his family says he was following a google map route

yes, that, michael connelly, the best selling crime novelist.ack then was just beginning to make a name for himself. >> just in the beginning, it had so much mystery involved. what was this man doing in that tunnel? >> and i suppose it would just add to the allure of the idea? following the man's internal? >> yeah, it was a pretty horrible place to die. that is for sure. >> did you actually go into that place? >> i went up there, once i didn't want to go in, i know reporters are supposed to go stick their nose into stuff so i went up to the entrance but i wasn't going to walk down into that tunnel, there were too many unanswered questions at that time. >> and no one knew just then, that they had entered a story already into chapter two. the san fernando valley is a vast, and crowded sprawl. more than one ministry here. it was midnight in the valley. a couple of hours before john doe 1:35 was found. in the manson tunnel. gayle and kay baker's home. the phone rang. >> there is a strange voice, and it said. we have your son. unless you give us $100