• Sarah Silverman sues ChatGPT creators
  • Several authors join the suit
  • They claim copyright infringement 

Sarah Silverman joins lawsuit agains creators of ChatGPT

Silverman alleges that her book, 'The Bedwetter,' was not authorized for use in training AI models. The plaintiffs claim that copyright law is violated by ChatGPT since it produces a "derivative" version of their works when instructed to summarize a source.

In addition to unauthorized use of their works, the authors claim the companies' AI models were trained with content from "shadow libraries" such as Library Genesis and Z-Library, which is "flagrantly illegal".

Each case reportedly contains six counts of copyright violations. The authors demand "statutory damages and restitution of profits," 'HuffPost' reports. Their attorneys detailed AI's impact on their website.

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"Since the release of OpenAI’s Chat­GPT sys­tem in March 2023, we’ve been hear­ing from writ­ers, authors, and publish­ers who are con­cerned about its uncanny abil­ity to gen­er­ate text sim­i­lar to that found in copy­righted tex­tual mate­ri­als, includ­ing thou­sands of books," Attorneys Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick said in a statement.