The individual who shared AI-generated completed versions of the Game of Thrones books has withdrawn them from circulation after being identified in George R.R. Martin’s legal action. Martin and several fellow authors recently joined forces to file a lawsuit against OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, alleging “extensive copyright violations” on a large scale.
The lawsuit specifically mentioned the fan who gained notoriety for utilizing ChatGPT to create finished editions of The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, the last two installments in Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. Subsequently, following their identification in George R.R. Martin’s legal action against OpenAI, the fan has removed the AI-generated iterations of the Game of Thrones books.
Fans Troll George R.R. Martin For The Lawsuit
The last entry in the Song of Ice and Fire series, which inspired the now-concluded HBO show Game of Thrones, came in 2011 with A Dance with Dragons. With fans becoming progressively restless as they await the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, which has been in development for more than a decade, a fan named Liam Swayne employed AI to finish the remaining Game of Thrones books, emulating George R.R. Martin’s writing style. While ChatGPT didn’t eliminate any major characters, it did offer a moderately satisfactory conclusion to the series.
A fan who used ChatGPT to finish the #GameOfThrones books has removed them after being named in George R.R. Martin’s lawsuit pic.twitter.com/0EAmEhsHcZ
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) October 10, 2023
I bet he probably did a better ending than him 🤧
— Changa Axelrod (@Engel_BurnerAcc) October 10, 2023
It would’ve been nice if George would’ve finished the books by now and he could have avoided this situation completely. But, you know, he rather do anything and everything aside from finishing the GoT series.
— Light (@light47) October 10, 2023
At least someone is trying to finish the books. 😂
— John Chavez (@JohncPDX) October 10, 2023
Who wants to bet it’s better than S8? 😂
— Mandolango (@Chilango83) October 10, 2023
Dang i wish i at least read ChatGPT Winds of Winter😫
— Carminedude (@carmineglitch) October 10, 2023
In the previous month, George R.R. Martin and several fellow authors initiated a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company responsible for ChatGPT, asserting that their copyrighted material had been used as “training data” without authorization.
Among the instances of OpenAI’s alleged copyright infringement, the fan’s use of ChatGPT to complete the Game of Thrones books by emulating Martin’s writing style stands out as one of the more notable ones. Nevertheless, following the lawsuit’s revelation, the fan promptly removed the project, indicating that there was no malicious intent on their part.
George R.R. Martin Is In Full Support Of Writers Guild
This blog post is penned in solidarity with writers affiliated with the Writers Guild of America, who were engaged in a strike to advocate for equitable compensation, job stability, and restrictions on the utilization of artificial intelligence in the writing domain.
Martin wrote in his blog:
“NONE OF IT would have been possible if not for the things I learned on TWILIGHT ZONE as a Staff Writer and Story Editor. I was the most junior of junior writers, maybe a hot(ish) young writer in the world of SF, but in TV I was so green that I would have been invisible against a green screen. And that, in my opinion, is the most important of the things that the Guild is fighting for. The right to have that kind of career path. To enable new writers, young writers, and yes, prose writers, to climb the same ladder.”
The inaugural installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Game of Thrones, made its debut in 1996, about ten years following George R.R. Martin’s involvement with The Twilight Zone. Martin’s creative contributions have since paved the way for the beloved HBO series Game of Thrones and its prequel, House of the Dragon.
