Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

Authors Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta, alleging copyright infringement. The lawsuits claim that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on datasets that illegally included the authors’ books, obtained from “shadow library” websites. Evidence presented shows that ChatGPT can summarize these books, which the plaintiffs argue is a direct infringement of their copyrights.

• Authors Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta.
• The lawsuits allege copyright infringement due to AI models being trained on books without permission.
• The authors claim their works were acquired from “shadow library” websites and used in datasets for ChatGPT and LLaMA.
• Exhibits show ChatGPT can summarize the authors’ books, infringing on their copyrights.
• Meta’s LLaMA training data sources, like ThePile from EleutherAI, are implicated in the complaint.
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