Title: Comedian Sarah Silverman and Authors Sue Meta and OpenAI Over Unauthorized Use of Content in AI Training
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San Francisco, California – Comedian Sarah Silverman, along with authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden, have filed lawsuits against Meta and OpenAI, alleging that the companies used their content without permission to train their artificial intelligence chatbots. The lawsuits, seeking unspecified money damages, were filed in San Francisco federal court on Friday.
Meta and OpenAI are the companies behind ChatGPT, a popular large language model that aims to replicate human conversation and automate tasks. However, the plaintiffs claim that Meta and OpenAI utilized their books and comedic material to develop these powerful tools without authorization.
According to the lawsuits, leaked information about Meta’s AI business revealed that the plaintiffs’ work was used without permission. In the case of OpenAI, summaries generated by ChatGPT indicated that the chatbot was trained on the plaintiffs’ copyrighted content, although some details were inaccurately represented.
The proposed class action lawsuits highlight the legal risks faced by developers of chatbots when utilizing copyrighted material to create realistic responses to user prompts. As generative AI programs like ChatGPT and other image generators grow in popularity, their sophisticated capabilities in producing content raise challenges in applying copyright law.
Development of AI programs involves exposing them to vast amounts of data, including text, images, and videos, to train them on associating user prompts with existing content. This raises questions about the content generated by AI programs and potential infringement of copyrighted works used during their training.
Both Meta and OpenAI have yet to respond to the accusations made in the lawsuits. FOX Business reached out to the companies for comment but received no response at the time of reporting.
The lawsuits seek to represent a nationwide class of copyright owners whose works were allegedly infringed upon. If successful, the legal action could have significant implications for the use of copyrighted material in training AI models.
FOX Business’ Eric Revell and Reuters have contributed to this report.
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