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07/12/2024

Two 80-something Journalists Tried ChatGPT

They then sued to protect the ‘written word’

When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes, 81, who live near one another in the same Massachusetts town, each devoted decades to reporting, writing and book authorship.

Gage poured his tragic family story and search for the truth about his mother’s death into a bestselling memoir that led John Malkovich to play him in the 1985 film "Eleni." Basbanes transitioned his skills as a daily newspaper reporter into writing widely-read books about literary culture.

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