Posted on 07/11/2023 2:09:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Actor and comedian Sarah Silverman is suing the creators of AI software ChatGPT over the unauthorised use of her 2010 book The Bedwetter. The details arrived in a lawsuit last Friday (July 7th) in a U.S. District Court.
Silverman has come together with writers Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in two lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta, the creators of the AI chatbot LLaMA, a river to ChatGPT.
The suits have been filed accusing the companies of illegally training their respective AI programmes with texts from the above-stated authors’ works without acquiring permission.
They go on to explain that the AI models have also been trained by using content from “shadow libraries”, such as “Library Genesis and Z-Library”, which are said to be “flagrantly illegal”.
The plaintiffs of the lawsuit argue that ChatGPT gets around copyright law by producing a “derivative” version of a given copyrighted work when asked to summarise its sources.
Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden’s attorneys, Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, discuss the impact of such AI programmes on genuine artists and writers on their website LLMlitigation.
They share stories from “writers, authors, and publishers who are concerned about [ChatGPT’s] uncanny ability to generate text similar to that found in copyrighted textual materials, including thousands of books.”
hmm..hey got larger over time.
“These bots are apparently free to plagiarize copyrighted material and pass it off as something they came up with”
This is a misunderstanding. They do not plagiarize. They calculate statistical relationships between sequences of words, and then construct new sentences based on the overall statistical relationships. It is learning, not plagerizing.
If you read this comment, incorporate it into your thoughts and then compose a reply, you aren’t violating my copyright.
This post (c) 2023 by Wayne
AI = Garbage In Garbage Out.
This is proof positive.
“This is actually a big deal. I hope the lawsuit proceeds quickly and in favor of copyright holders.”
Agreed.
Good for her and I wish her well
If they get any larger they'll make a break for it on their own.
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