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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(130,357 posts) Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:15 PM Yesterday

ChatGPT came up with a 'Game of Thrones' sequel idea. Now, a judge is letting George RR Martin sue for copyright

infringement.

When a federal judge decided to allow a sprawling class-action lawsuit against OpenAI to move forward, he read some "Game of Thrones" fan fiction.

In a court ruling Monday, US District Judge Sidney Stein said a ChatGPT-generated idea for a book in the still-unfinished "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin could have violated the author's copyright.

"A reasonable jury could find that the allegedly infringing outputs are substantially similar to plaintiffs' works," the judge said in the 18-page Manhattan federal court ruling.

The decision was made in a case that consolidated several class-action lawsuits from authors — including Martin, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jia Tolentino, and Sarah Silverman, among others — against OpenAI and Microsoft.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/chatgpt-came-game-thrones-sequel-190717101.html

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ChatGPT came up with a 'Game of Thrones' sequel idea. Now, a judge is letting George RR Martin sue for copyright (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP

It is plagiarism WSHazel Yesterday #1

Absolutely! SheltieLover Yesterday #2

A while back I read that the British court issued copyright laws saying that AI would be in2herbs Yesterday #3

Normally, I would side with the human author. However, in the case of George RR Martin... PeaceWave 20 hrs ago #4

WSHazel

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1. It is plagiarism

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:20 PM

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ChatGPT is stealing intellectual property. This should be an easy win for the authors, and we are in a lot of trouble if it isn’t.

SheltieLover

(74,772 posts)

2. Absolutely!

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Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:22 PM

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in2herbs

(4,017 posts)

3. A while back I read that the British court issued copyright laws saying that AI would be

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:15 PM

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required to get approval from the creator, otherwise it would be in violation of copyright law.

PeaceWave

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4. Normally, I would side with the human author. However, in the case of George RR Martin...

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Fri Oct 31, 2025, 01:43 AM

20 hrs ago

I'm extremely tempted to side with ChatGPT. Martin has been promising books #6 and #7 - which would complete his series "A Song of Ice and Fire" - for THIRTEEN years. Once the HBO adaptation started, Martin quit writing on the series - which forced HBO to come up with its own ending for the epic tale. Readers have yet to receive any conclusion to the series - despite repeated assurances by Martin over the years that books #6 and #7 were "nearly complete." Pardon the pun, but in my book, the man is guilty of the crime of authorial malpractice.

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