Microsoft, OpenAI sued by book authors for copyright infringement

United States-based tech firm Microsoft and artificial intelligence (AI) research company OpenAI were sued by two non-fiction book authors for copyright infringement.

Authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage claimed in the lawsuit, filed in a Manhattan federal court yesterday, that their work has been “systematically pilfered” by Microsoft and OpenAI.

Anadolu Agency reported that the lawsuit also...