OpenAI and Meta have been sued by writer and comedian Sarah Silverman and two other writers Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden for copyright infringement and training their great language models, ChatGPT and LLaMA respectively, on the writers' job.
The lawsuits, filed separately for OpenAI and Meta, allege that the works of the three writers were illegally acquired from hidden libraries such as Bibliotik, Z-Library, Library Genesis, and others. The lawsuits also acknowledged that the books are "available in bulk through torrent systems."
He class action lawsuitsubmitted by law firm Joseph Saveri, filed against OpenAI says: "...when ChatGPT is requested, ChatGPT generates summaries of Claimants' copyrighted works, something that is only possible if ChatGPT was trained on the works Plaintiffs' copyrighted materials..." The lawsuit further says this benefits OpenAI commercially and financially from the use of Silverman, Kadrey and Golden's copyrighted materials.
