WASHINGTON - US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company’s release of ChatGPT took the world by storm.
Much of the training material used by OpenAI and Meta “comes from copyrighted works – including books written by the plaintiffs – that were copied by OpenAI and Meta without consent, without credit, and without compensation,” the trio’s lawyers said in a blog post. If these types of cases succeed, they would upend the way the technology is developed, limiting the way tech giants can build their models and churn out convincing, human-like content.
San Francisco lawyer Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick are behind other such lawsuits and filed the latest on behalf of Silverman and the authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey.