Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright

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The lawsuit against OpenAI claims the three authors “did not consent to the use of their copyrighted books as training material for ChatGPT. Nonetheless, their copyrighted materials were ingested and used to train ChatGPT.” The lawsuit concerning Meta claims that “many” of the authors’ copyrighted books appear in the dataset that the Facebook and Instagram owner used to train LLaMA, a group of Meta-owned AI models.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...erman-sues-openai-meta-copyright-infringement

A whole new area of law. Law schools will have to start teaching who owns public discourse.

 

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The lawyers representing the three authors, Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, have written that since the release of ChatGPT they have been hearing from writers, authors and publishers expressing concern about the tool’s “uncanny” ability to generate text similar to copyrighted material.

Saveri and Butterick are also representing two more US authors, Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay, who have filed a separate class action lawsuit against OpenAI claiming ChatGPT was trained on their work without the writers’ consent. Getty Images, the stock photo company, is suing the company behind AI image generator Stable Diffusion over alleged breach of copyright. Saveri and Butterick are representing three artists – Sarah Ander*sen, Kelly McK*er*nan and Karla Ortiz – in a lawsuit against image generators Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.