Silverman’s book is copyrighted material, meaning companies would generally need her permission to use it for their own purposes. Her suit alleges that despite Meta’s and OpenAI’s claims that they don’t use copyrighted material to train their AIs, the shadow library of sources like Library Genesis, Z-Library, Sci-Hub and Bibliotik that they use for training do contain these works. As proof, she asked ChatGPT to recite excerpts from her book and it read whole passages back to her verbatim.
Why is Sarah Silverman suing OpenAI and Meta?
Answer: For allegedly using her book to train the AIs.
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AI is currently having a moment pretty much everywhere, and that includes the court system. Comedian Sarah Silverman recently filed suit against OpenAI and Meta claiming that they used her book The Bedwetter to train their respective AI platforms ChatGPT and LLaMA.
Silverman’s book is copyrighted material, meaning companies would generally need her permission to use it for their own purposes. Her suit alleges that despite Meta’s and OpenAI’s claims that they don’t use copyrighted material to train their AIs, the shadow library of sources like Library Genesis, Z-Library, Sci-Hub and Bibliotik that they use for training do contain these works. As proof, she asked ChatGPT to recite excerpts from her book and it read whole passages back to her verbatim.
Two other authors, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, have joined the suit for the same reasons.
Silverman’s book is copyrighted material, meaning companies would generally need her permission to use it for their own purposes. Her suit alleges that despite Meta’s and OpenAI’s claims that they don’t use copyrighted material to train their AIs, the shadow library of sources like Library Genesis, Z-Library, Sci-Hub and Bibliotik that they use for training do contain these works. As proof, she asked ChatGPT to recite excerpts from her book and it read whole passages back to her verbatim.
