Recently, comedian and author Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta in the United States Federal District Court. The lawsuit alleges two counts of copyright infringement related to AI systems that allegedly generated works too similar to the plaintiffs’ protected content.
In the lawsuit, the authors claim that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained and programmed on unlawfully accessed copyrighted datasets, including their works sourced from websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and other similar platforms.
Golden and Kadrey declined to comment on the lawsuit. In OpenAI’s case, the plaintiffs provided evidence indicating that when prompted, ChatGPT summarized their books, thus engaging in copyright infringement. Silverman’s “Bedwetter,” Golden’s “Ararat,” and Kadrey’s “Sandman Slim” were cited as examples of the alleged infringement.
Regarding Meta, the tech giant has requested the San Francisco court to dismiss the lawsuits, stating that the plaintiffs cannot prove that LLaMA generated similar or copied texts from their works. Meta also argued that the plaintiffs’ claims were baseless as they suggested all their AI-generated products were solely based on copyrighted materials. Instead, Meta stated that their works contributed to less than a millionth of the inputs in creating AI products.
Meta emphasized their adherence to the “selective fair use principle” regarding the plaintiffs’ works, and they have promised to present additional evidence at a later stage to completely refute the authors’ claims.
Llama 2 is Meta’s first publicly available large-scale language model for commercial use, offered free of charge to companies with fewer than 700 million monthly active users.
Llama 2 is considered a promising tool with the potential to support small and medium-sized enterprises, especially startups, in the global race for AI software development.
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