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On Friday, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed US federal class-action lawsuits on behalf of Sarah Silverman and other authors against OpenAI and Meta, accusing the companies of illegally using copyrighted material to train AI language models such as ChatGPT and LLaMA.
Other authors represented include Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, and an earlier class-action lawsuit filed by the same firm on June 28 included authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad. Each lawsuit alleges violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unfair competition laws, and negligence.
[...] Authors claim that by utilizing "flagrantly illegal" data sets, OpenAI allegedly infringed copyrights of Silverman's book The Bedwetter, Golden's Ararat, and Kadrey's Sandman Slime. And Meta allegedly infringed copyrights of the same three books, as well as "several" other titles from Golden and Kadrey.
[...] Authors are already upset that companies seem to be unfairly profiting off their copyrighted materials, and the Meta lawsuit noted that any unfair profits currently gained could further balloon, as "Meta plans to make the next version of LLaMA commercially available." In addition to other damages, the authors are asking for restitution of alleged profits lost.
"Much of the material in the training datasets used by OpenAI and Meta comes from copyrighted works—including books written by plaintiffs—that were copied by OpenAI and Meta without consent, without credit, and without compensation," Saveri and Butterick wrote in their press release.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by looorg on Wednesday July 12 2023, @02:03PM (2 children)
That is in part what is so baffling about it all. Most, if not all, of these people involved in this LLM AI whatever come from the academic world, where referencing is everything. Anyone really working on this that doesn't have at least a Masters degree or a PhD? They might be used to trying to do things on the cheap and free. But you never skimp on referencing. After all being caught out as a plagiarist is basically a career ending offense in some part.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Wednesday July 12 2023, @04:14PM (1 child)
Nothing to be baffled about $.$ vision.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 12 2023, @07:16PM
Also, the people building the engine and the people scraping the web into an engine are different people.