Comedians Sue AI: Claiming Their Texts Were Used Without Permission

Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta. They allege that these companies’ artificial intelligence systems were trained on material published online without the authors’ permission.

The AI Controversy

Specifically, the contention is that OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, and Meta’s language model, LLaMA, are believed to have been fed with numerous books from pirate libraries like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. The attorneys’ claim in their lawsuit is that Meta and OpenAI’s artificial intelligences and language models could have been used to write summaries of the three authors’ books. They argue that this wouldn’t have been possible unless Meta and OpenAI unlawfully utilized the three authors’ works.

Legal Battles Over AI

The same law firm representing the three authors is also involved in other legal disputes where AI companies are believed to have fed their applications with text and/or images in violation of copyright law. So far, there are no guiding verdicts specifying what AI can or cannot be fed due to copyright.

Witty Summary

In a world where AI is learning faster than a college student cramming for finals, it seems our robotic friends may have skipped the class on copyright laws. Now, they’re getting a crash course in legal proceedings. Stay tuned to find out if AI gets detention or a slap on the wrist.

Source: Feber