By Emma Whitford ( October 27, 2025, 22:22 GMT | Insight) -- A proposed class of book authors can pursue allegations that ChatGPT spits out summaries that infringe their works, US District Judge Sidney H. Stein ordered Monday, declining OpenAI’s motion to dismiss their output-based direct infringement claim. Examples of allegedly infringing ChatGPT outputs in the authors’ complaint satisfy a “substantial similarity” test, Stein found. A proposed class of book authors can pursue allegations that ChatGPT spits out summaries that infringe their works, US District Judge Sidney H. Stein ordered Monday, declining OpenAI’s motion to dismiss their output-based direct infringement claim....
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