Authors Sue Meta & OpenAI -- Class-Action Copyright Claim on Thousands of Books
A group of writers headed by celebrated novelist Michael Chabon and Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are suing Facebook parent Meta as well as ChatGPT maker OpenAI, alleging in two separate suits that their artificial intelligence platforms ...
Not in the US. I am not familiar with other jurisdictions... are you referring to one of them?
In the US reverse engineering is allowed except under some very specific conditions such as obtaining the product illegally or breach of contract (ie you signed a contact saying you wouldn't reverse engineer).
Maybe you are thinking about patents? If you patent your product you are protected from reverse engineering with the tradeoff that the protection is for a limited time and you must divulge your secrets. If you do not receive a patent your trade secret is not (and should not be IMHO) protected from reverse engineering. But of course this wouldn't have anything to do with a copyright suit.
I don't think I follow your argument. Why is it relevant that a generative AI could spit out thousands or even millions of Steven King styled books so long as none of them are in violation of copyright? If I write something in the style of King because I've read a lot of his books and I like his work should he be able to sue me? Of course not. It doesn't matter if I write one book or a million; if there is no copyright violation there is no problem.