CNN —Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors are suing Meta and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, alleging the companies’ AI language models were trained on copyrighted materials from their books without their knowledge or consent.
A new crop of AI tools has gained tremendous attention in recent months for their ability to generate written work and images in response to user prompts.
The large language models underpinning these tools are trained on vast troves of online data.
The complaint against Meta similarly claims that the company used the authors’ copyrighted books to train LLaMA, the set of large language models released by Meta in February.
The legal action from Silverman isn’t the first to focus on how large language models are trained.
Persons:
Sarah Silverman, OpenAI, Silverman, ”, Christopher Golden, Richard Kadrey, ChatGPT, “, Meta, Silverman isn’t, Sam Altman, “ We’re
Organizations:
CNN, Meta, OpenAI, Facebook
Locations:
San Francisco federal