Sarah Silverman sues Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement

Author Sarah Silverman and two others have sued OpenAI and Meta for using copyrighted works. author without permission to train their AI systems.

American comedian and author Sarah Silverman, along with two other authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden, have sued Meta Platforms' LLaMa and OpenAI's ChatGPT for copyright infringement.

Meta and OpenAI allegedly used the plaintiffs' content to train their respective artificial intelligence (AI) systems without obtaining prior permission.

According to court documents against Meta, many of the copyrighted plaintiffs' books appear in the dataset that "Meta admitted to using to form LLaMA".

Similarly, in the case against OpenAI, the lawsuit alleges that when ChatGPT generates summaries of plaintiffs' work, it is an indication of training via copyrighted content.

“The summaries contain errors in some detail. This is expected since a large language model mixes expressive material from many sources. Yet the rest of the summaries are accurate…”

In order to obtain this data, the lawsuits claim that the companies scraped the copyrighted data from so-called "shadow libraries", such as Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library and others.

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These shadow libraries are websites that use torrent systems to make books "mass available," the lawsuit says. Such sites are illegal and unlike open source data from databases such as Gutenberg, which collects copyrighted books. which are sold out.

"These shadow libraries have long been of interest to the AI ​​training community due to the large amount of copyrighted material...