Sarah Silverman.Photo:Dia Dipasupil/Getty
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Sarah Silvermanis one of three authors suing Meta and OpenAI over allegations the companies used copyrighted material to train their own artificial intelligence systems.
The 52-year-old comedian has joined a pair of class-action suits with two other authors, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, according toThe New York TimesandCNN. The complaints, one against OpenAI and the other against Meta, were filed in a San Francisco federal court on Friday.
The suit against Meta also alleges that the company accessed their works through an online “shadow library,” which is described in the filing as “flagrantly illegal.”
The authors made similar allegations in their suit against OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company most known for its ChatGPT product. In the complaint they claimed they “did not consent to the use of their copyrighted books as training material for ChatGPT,” but that “their copyrighted materials were ingested and used to train ChatGPT,” reportedThe Guardian.
Meta declined to comment on the lawsuit, while OpenAI did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Last month, OpenAI was hit with two additional lawsuits amid growing concerns about artificial intelligence.
Another suit claimed that OpenAI collected large amounts of personal data, including “essentially every piece of data exchanged on the internet it could take,” without proper notice, consent or compensation,CNNandRolling Stonereported.
Additionally, the complaint alleged that OpenAI “used stolen private information,” including personal information “from hundreds of millions of internet users, including children of all ages, according to the outlets.
source: people.com
