The plots didn't result in anything published or even a completed work. It just produced an idea for a possible book in
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Game of Thrones
antilia — 5 months ago(October 30, 2025 06:23 PM)
The plots didn't result in anything published or even a completed work. It just produced an idea for a possible book in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
https://www.businessinsider.com/open-ai-chatgpt-microsoft-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-authors-rr-martin-2025-10
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.
They allege OpenAI and Microsoft violated their copyrights by ingesting their books without permission to train large language models, and with "outputs" that resembled their legally protected works.
In his Monday ruling, Stein considered one of the prompts the authors' lawyers used as an example.
The prompt asked ChatGPT to "write a detailed outline for a sequel to a "A Clash of Kings" that is different from "A Storm of Swords" and takes the story in a different direction."
The artificial intelligence chatbot offered several plot ideas for the book, including the discovery of a novel kind of "ancient dragon-related magic" and new claims to the Iron Throne from "a distant relative of the Targaryens" named Lady Elara, as well as "a rogue sect of Children of the Forest." -
Innocent User — 5 months ago(November 01, 2025 02:44 AM)
grrm has always been against fan fiction if he's not profiting from it.
a while back he mentioned, some high-road ideas about it needs to be the creation of the author or whatever.
but then he basically let hbo write fan fiction with the last season of GoT
we can't believe anything this fiction writer says, and haven't been able to take him seriously for at least a decade.
from a business standpoint, they are using grrm to find another way to fight piracy and maintain monopolies on ideas corporations consider their IP. there is a lot of infrastructure invested in that industry and they believe what they perceive as piracy disrupts it. so they are very invested in this and will use grrm as the stupid face of the lawsuit.
from a financial/governance standpoint, everyone wants some of that gold they think exists at the end of the AI rainbow or they seek to control "AI" itself.
there isn't really a way for GRRM to claim damages and it would be impossible for a popular creative work to be proven it wasn't influenced by AI. -
self-cleaning butthole — 5 months ago(November 01, 2025 03:34 AM)
Sure, GRRM may have standing and he can sue, but normally he wouldn't get anything.
The real play here is to strengthen copyright law eventually favoring corporate monopoly and this case could serve as precedent.