This echoes a string of similar legal actions taken by writers such as Sarah Silverman and George R.R. Martin against tech firms for alleged misuse of their work in training AI programs.
How AI generates new content, and how that impacts copyright, are also at the heart of a lawsuit that The New York Times has filed against ChatGPT creator OpenAI, and Microsoft, which has funded and integrated many OpenAI tools into its products. The case will significantly inform how copyright and AI is dealt with in courts worldwide.
In the correspondence addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Elon Musk's lawyer requested that the tech giant conduct an audit to assess its use of Twitter's content