Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have sues Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly exploiting their work without permission in order to train artificial intelligence language models. The lawsuits say that the companies infringed on their copyright by using the authors’ and comedian’s work.
Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden filed proposed class action lawsuits against Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT developer OpenAI in a federal court in San Francisco on Friday. The petitions say that the defendants exploited copyrighted content to train chat bots.
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On Sunday, neither Meta nor OpenAI, a privately held startup supported by Microsoft Corporation (MSFT.O), responded immediately to requests for comments that were sent to them.
The lawsuits highlight the legal concerns that developers of chat bots face when employing troves of copyrighted content to create programs that offer realistic responses to user prompts. These legal issues are highlighted by the cases.
Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden argue that Meta and OpenAI exploited their books without their authorization to construct their so-called large language models. The creators of these models promote them as powerful tools for automating jobs by simulating human interaction.
The plaintiffs in the case against Meta allege, among other things, that their work was improperly used by the defendant by virtue of information that was improperly leaked on the company’s artificial intelligence business.
The case that was filed against OpenAI asserts that summaries of the plaintiffs’ work that were generated by ChatGPT indicate that the bot was trained on the plaintiffs’ intellectual property.
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Sarah Silverman sues Meta in the lawsuit, it is said that “the summaries get some details wrong,” but that this does not change the fact that ChatGPT “retains knowledge of particular works in the training dataset.”
The cases are filed on behalf of a nationwide class of copyright owners whose works are said to have been infringed upon, and they seek monetary damages of an undefined amount.
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