New Delhi, 10th July 2023: Sarah Silverman, a comedian, and two authors have sued Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly utilising their content without permission to train their artificial intelligence language models.
Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden filed proposed class action lawsuits in San Francisco federal court on Friday, alleging that Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT developer OpenAI misappropriated copyrighted information to train chat bots.
On Sunday, Meta and OpenAI, a private firm sponsored by Microsoft Corp., did not respond to calls for comment.
The lawsuits highlight the legal issues that chat bot developers confront when exploiting troves of copyrighted information to create programmes that provide realistic responses to user commands.
Meta and OpenAI, according to Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden, exploited their books without permission to construct their so-called large language models, which their creators market as powerful tools for automating jobs by recreating human interaction.
The plaintiffs in their case against Meta claim that leaked information concerning the company’s artificial intelligence division demonstrates that their work was used without permission.
According to the lawsuit filed against OpenAI, summaries of the plaintiffs’ work created by ChatGPT demonstrate that the bot was trained on their copyrighted content.
“The summaries get some details wrong,” but they nonetheless prove that ChatGPT “retains knowledge of specific works in the training dataset,” according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuits seek undisclosed monetary damages on behalf of a broad class of allegedly infringing copyright owners.
