Sarah Silverman Sues ChatGPT Creator for Copyright Infringement
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta—the creators of AI language models ChatGPT and LLaMA, respectively—for stealing information from her book The Bedwetter, according to a pair of lawsuits filed Friday in a U.S. District Court.
Silverman joins fellow authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in the class-action copyright lawsuits, which claim that that both ChatGPT and LLaMA were trained on their books without the writers’ permission. The suits also allege that the models were likely fed the books from “shadow library” databases like Library Genesis and Z-Library.
“The books aggregated by these websites have also been available in bulk via torrent systems,” one suit claims, adding that, “these flagrantly illegal shadow libraries have long been of interest to the AI-training community.”