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I'm a professor who is also haunted by an AI ghost and it is so fucking horrifying. WHERE THE HELL IS THE OPT-OUT BUTTON? bsky.app/profile/did:...

That's an appropriation of your name. That is part of privacy/publicity law which is state law, not federal like copyright. Try lawyers who specialize in Intellectual Property law. Some who advertise that they handle "entertainment law" may also be familiar with the statutes & case law.

I am so so sorry. I loved your work at WaPo. I would be willing to sign a letter stating that I will not be using WaPo in my classroom or personal life because of their use of OpenAI. It’s theft and impersonation.

You could sue them for trademark infringement for tarnishing your name. I would sue under section 43B of the Lanahm Act, the false advertising prong. I wrote a law review article in 2006 about using the false advertising prong to enforce moral rights.

If WaPo owns the words, maybe contact their General Counsel

Also I hear the lawyers for the Author’s guild vs Open Ai are great too! Here’s the initial complaint for their names: authorsguild.org/app/uploads/... Lot’s of great folks doing good work who I bet would be happy to speak with you on this issue! Best of luck and let me know if i can assist!

It's still thoroughly reprehensible for them to warp the intent of your words like that.

This is the legal point you can begin to explore when you take the next steps.

Then right there is your in, sue over the unauthorized use of your name for something that you never actually wrote

Those are your words, but not your thoughts, they are misrepresenting your actual meaning and thoughts on the matter. A lawsuit would be "self" versus AI & WAPO for misinterpretation of the mind and soul of the writer.

I advocate for regulate AI use but that should be in form of making easier to trace who made each request, if someone is trying to use AI to falsify your content we should have the tools to identify that person, since that person is the most responsible not the technology itslef.

Yours

and I would think wrongful impersonation

Hey guys, can you say, "class action lawsuit"? :)

did you enter the prompts that generated that text? someone is saying you did but i assumed it was something done without your knowledge or permission.

1st, IANAL. However: I think this is what it comes down to. If WaPo works out a deal with OpenAI to allow WaPo content to be used as training data, and their content rights includes your articles, it may be hard to go after WaPo. The output seems to be at the crux of the issue, and that’s on OpenAI.

Get copyright infringement and defamation lawyer(s) who can sue over your ownership of the work and the use of your name on something they changed and that you would never write. Even though WaPo has the right to tweak they don't have the right to change meaning and context and use your name.

Perhaps this is the groundbreaking case that is needed