US Comedian Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI For Copyright Infringement

American comedian Sarah Silverman, along with Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, have sued OpenAI and Meta in a federal court for copyright infringement.

The lawsuit claims that Meta and Open AI used their content without permission to train AI language models, especially chatbots, which counts as copyright infringement.

The lawsuit stated that the three authors didn’t consent to Meta and OpenAI using their copyrighted books as training materials for ChatGPT. However, they claimed that their copyrighted materials were used to train ChatGPT.

Sarah Silverman Sues Meta And OpenAI

According to a report by The Guardian, the lawsuit against Meta claims that many of the authors’ copyrighted books are present in the dataset that Facebook and Instagram owners used to train LLaMA, a group of Meta-owned AI models.

LLaMa is a "foundational large language model" that is designed to help in artificial intelligence research. It is a huge AI system that can be used for a range of tasks.

The authors’ lawsuits allege that their works were gathered from a "shadow library" that contained thousands of books.

The authors claimed that when prompted, ChatGPT summarised the three books: Silverman's The Bedwetter, Ararat by Golden, and Kadrey's Sandman Slim. In their claim, the chatbot did not reproduce any of the copyright management information the plaintiffs provided with their published works.

Lawyers Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, who are representing the three authors, claimed that since the release of ChatGPT writers, authors and publishers have been expressing concern over the tool’s ability to generate content similar to copyrighted materials.

The lawyers are representing two other authors, Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay, who have also filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT had been trained to use the work of the authors without their consent.

Getty Images is also suing the company behind the AI image generator, Stable Diffusion, for alleged copyright infringement.

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