Lawsuit Filed Against ChatGPT for Alleged Infringement of Artificial Intelligence Copyright
OpenAI is facing a lawsuit from three authors, including American comedian Sarah Silverman, who allege copyright infringement following the widespread popularity of the company’s ChatGPT. This legal action represents the latest resistance from creative individuals against OpenAI.
The plaintiffs accuse the San Francisco company of using their work to train its AI models without permission, adding to a series of cases that could hamper the evolution of the tech world’s biggest new trend.
The trio also filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company Meta, whose lesser-known open-source models also used pirated downloads of their books for educational purposes, according to the lawsuit.
Much of the training material used by OpenAI and Meta “comes from copyrighted works — including books written by plaintiffs — that OpenAI and Meta copied without permission, without credit, and without compensation,” the trio’s lawyers said in a blog post. send.
In both lawsuits, filed Friday in a California court, the authors accuse tech companies of using their books to train their AI models and claim multiple copyright violations.
If successful, these types of cases would change the way technology is developed, limiting the way tech giants build their models and produce compelling human-like content.
Recent cases include source code owners against OpenAI and Microsoft’s GitHub, visual artists and photo agency Getty against Stability AI.
San Francisco attorneys Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick are behind other such suits and filed the latest on behalf of Silverman and writers Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey.
The lawsuit cited Silverman’s 2010 bestselling memoir “The Bedwetter,” Golden’s horror novel “Macarat” and Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series Supernatural noir.
Silverman is best known in the United States for his edgy and often controversial humor, as well as his outspokenness on social and political issues.
Plaintiffs against OpenAI say they “did not agree to use their copyrighted books as training material for ChatGPT. Nevertheless, their copyrighted material was ingested and used to train ChatGPT.”
The authors submitted exhibits at trial that provided ChatGPT with detailed summaries of their works.
Against Meta, the trio alleges that the company turned to an illegally built “shadow library” to build the company’s LLaMA models, which included their work.
These libraries use pirated torrent downloads to illegally publish copyrighted works.
OpenAI declined to comment on the lawsuit, while Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
