WASHINGTON: US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company’s release of ChatGPT took the world by storm.

The plaintiffs accuse the San Francisco company of using their works to train their artificial intelligence models without permission, adding to a series of cases that could complicate the development of tech world’s biggest new trend.

The trio also filed a suit against Facebook parent company Meta, whose less known open source models also used pirated downloads of their books for training purposes, the suit alleged.

Much of the training material used by OpenAI and Meta “comes from copyrighted works —including books written by the plaintiffs — that were copied by OpenAI and Meta without consent, without credit, and without compensation,” the trio’s lawyers said in a blog post.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2023