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The
proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard
Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court
Friday allege Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT maker
OpenAI used copyrighted material to train chat bots.
Meta and OpenAI, a private company backed by Microsoft Corp, did
not immediately respond to requests for comment on Sunday.
The lawsuits underscore the legal risks developers of chat bots
face when using troves of copyrighted material to create apps
that deliver realistic responses to user prompts.
Silverman, Kadrey and Golden allege Meta and OpenAI used their
books without authorization to develop their so-called large
language models, which their makers pitch as powerful tools for
automating tasks by replicating human conversation.
In their lawsuit against Meta, the plaintiffs allege that leaked
information about the company’s artificial intelligence business
shows their work was used without permission.
The lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that summaries of the
plaintiffs’ work generated by ChatGPT indicate the bot was
trained on their copyrighted content.
“The summaries get some details wrong” but still show that
ChatGPT “retains knowledge of particular works in the training
dataset," the lawsuit says.
The lawsuits seek unspecified money damages on behalf of a
nationwide class of copyright owners whose works were allegedly
infringed.
(Reporting by Jack Queen; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)
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