The world of AI is facing backlash from entertainers and creators, as comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have recently filed copyright infringement lawsuits. According to reports from The Verge and The Guardian, Silverman, along with Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, have accused OpenAI and Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s company, of using their work without permission to train their AI models. The lawsuit includes Silverman’s memoir “Bedwetter” among the books allegedly infringed upon. They are seeking damages and restitution, although neither company has responded to the allegations yet, as reported by Variety.
The lawsuit claims that the authors did not give consent for their copyrighted books to be used as training material for ChatGPT. However, their works were allegedly used without permission. The same claims are made against Meta’s LLama AI models. As highlighted by Rolling Stone, this is not the first lawsuit of its kind, as horror novelist Paul Tremblay and author Mona Awad have also filed similar suits using the same attorney. The Los Angeles Times reports Tremblay and Awad accused OpenAI of “ingesting” copyrighted work without permission, including Tremblay’s book “The Cabin at the End of the World”.
The lawsuit argues that OpenAI and ChatGPT are profiting from “stolen writing.” This issue extends beyond writers, as coders and visual artists have also taken legal action against large language model training practices. Coders are suing OpenAI and code repository GitHub (owned by Microsoft), while visual artists are suing text-to-image programs such as StabilityAI and Midjourney, as reported by Reuters. (Read more artificial intelligence stories.)
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