By Chad Langen | Posted 19 seconds ago
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Stand-up comedian, actress and author Sarah Silverman has taken legal action against artificial intelligence developers. She is suing ChatGPT developers Open AI and Meta, citing copyright infringement, claiming that their AI models used her work without consent. According to The Guardian, the 52-year-old star and former Saturday Night Live cast member has accused those companies of using their content to train their AI systems without permission.
Sarah Silverman joins two authors suing OpenAI over ChatGPT’s unauthorized use of their books.
Authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, along with Sarah Silverman, have taken legal action against OpenAI and Meta. They claim that these organizations have trained their AI models ChatGPT and LLaMA on datasets obtained illegally from “shadow library” websites including Bibliotik, Library Genesis and Z-Library containing their works.
The lawsuits also point out that her books are available in bulk through torrent systems.
In their lawsuit against OpenAI, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey presented evidence that ChatGPT aggregates their copyrighted books when asked to do so.
Silverman’s book Bedwetter is considered the first example, followed by Golden’s Ararat and Kadrey’s Sandman Slim examples. The claim states that the AI chatbot does not acknowledge the copyright management information contained in its published works.
Sarah Silverman
Aside from the lawsuit against OpenAI over ChatGPT, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey have filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that their books were used in the data sets for training Meta’s LLaMA models.
These models are a group of open-source artificial intelligence models that the company launched in February. The lawsuit details the allegation that these datasets, one of which is named ThePile and compiled by EleutherAI, were created illegally, citing an EleutherAI paper that indicated that ThePile was made from ” a copy of the content of the private library tracker”.
Sarah Silverman’s book Bedwetter can be summarized by ChatGPT, which was trained on a database that contained an illegal copy.
Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, attorneys for Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, report that they have received concerns from various authors and publishers about ChatGPT’s troubling ability to generate text reflecting copyrighted content.
The same attorneys are also representing authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay in a separate class action lawsuit against OpenAI alleging the unauthorized use of their work for ChatGPT training. Additionally, Saveri and Butterick are representing artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karala Ortiz in a lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt image generators.
Sarah Silverman joins a growing list of celebrities addressing copyright infringement using AI systems like ChatGPT.
Sarah Silverman is the latest celebrity to sue OpenAI
The legal representatives of well-known ex-NFL quarterback Tom Brady reportedly issued a cease-and-desist letter to comedians Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen earlier this year. The comedians produced an hour-long video featuring an AI-created image of Brady for a fictional comedy special created without the athlete’s consent.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is likely to lead to an increase in legal disputes against AI systems like ChatGPT. These cases not only pose major challenges for AI organizations like OpenAI, but also push the boundaries of traditional copyright laws.
The legal actions by Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey underscore the emerging trend in AI litigation and suggest they are neither the first nor the last to do so.