Comedian Sarah Silverman Takes Legal Action Against ChatGPT and Meta for Copyright Violation

Comedian Sarah Silverman and bestselling authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden have filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement. The authors claim that their copyrighted books were used without permission to train the artificial intelligence software programs of ChatGPT and LLaMa. The lawsuits seek nearly $1 billion in damages. This comes after similar copyright infringement lawsuits were filed by Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay against OpenAI. The authors argue that the tech companies failed to credit or compensate them for using their works. The AI models are accused of ingesting text from shadow libraries, which the lawsuit deems "flagrantly illegal."