Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models.
Proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court on Friday allege that Facebook’s parent company Meta and ChatGPT maker OpenAI used copyrighted material to train chat bots. chat.
Meta and OpenAI, a private company backed by Microsoft, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Sunday.
The lawsuits underscore the legal risks chatbot developers face when they use large amounts of copyrighted material to create apps that provide realistic responses to user requests.
Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden allege that Meta and OpenAI used their books without authorization to develop so-called extended language models, which their creators present as powerful tools for automating tasks by replicating human conversation.
In their lawsuit against Meta, the plaintiffs allege that leaked information about the company’s artificial intelligence business shows that its work was used without permission.
The lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that summaries of the plaintiffs’ work generated by ChatGPT indicate that the bot was trained on their copyrighted content.
“The summaries are wrong on some details,” but still show that ChatGPT “withholds knowledge of particular jobs in the training data set,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuits seek unspecified monetary damages on behalf of a nationwide class of copyright owners whose works are allegedly infringed.
