Sarah Silverman has accused the creator of of stealing information in a new lawsuit, it has been claimed.
The comedian, 52, is reportedly seeking damages from OpenAI and , who created ChatGPT and LLaMA respectively, claiming that information from her 2010 book, The Bedwetter, was taken without her permission.
According to reports, she has since joined fellow authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden by taking legal action.
Documents obtained by the allege that the authors didn’t give their permission for the AI models to be trained on their .
The paperwork reportedly claims that the systems may have been ‘fed’ the books from ‘shadow library’ databases – something that was described as ‘flagrantly illegal’.
‘The books aggregated by these websites have also been available in bulk via torrent systems, these flagrantly illegal shadow libraries have long been of interest to the AI-training community,’ the documents read.
The outlet reports that submissions attached to the OpenAI lawsuit reveal that ChatGPT is able to summarize the authors’ books and produce a ‘derivative’ work of almost any copyrighted source.
Both lawsuits also suggested that AI models are illegal under the Copyright Act as they need to be ‘fed with copyrighted material’ in order to work.
‘If a user prompts ChatGPT to summarise a copyrighted book, it will do so,’ the paperwork for both lawsuits is thought to have read.
In documents for the OpenAI action, lawyers reportedly asked ‘whether ChatGPT itself is an infringing derivative work based on Plaintiffs’ copyrighted books’.
The Meta submission also alleged that LLaMA models ‘are themselves infringing derivative works,’ as they ‘cannot function without the expressive information extracted from the Plaintiffs’ Infringed Works’.
The two lawsuits each contain six counts of copyright violations, unfair competition, negligence and unjust enrichment, with those involved seeking statutory damages and restitution of profits.
Although the current class action only includes Silberman, Kadrey and Golden, it is claimed that there are ‘thousands’ in the US whose copyrights are possibly being violated.
Metro.co.uk has contacted reps for Sarah, Meta and LLaMA for a comment.
