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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: 3, Funny) by legont on Thursday July 13 2023, @12:52AM (3 children)
All those artists can make their living by open air live performances where tickets are sold for physical beings to attend.
As per their creations, they are free as birds for anybody to take.
Yes, they are not supposed to be rich. Rich makes bad art. Only poor - preferably near to death poor - makes good art.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 3, Touché) by mcgrew on Thursday July 13 2023, @01:10AM (2 children)
Only poor - preferably near to death poor - makes good art.
Says the man who knows absolutely nothing about any art form whatever. Yes, I was an art student, kid, half a century ago. Those who think they know everything are annoying to those who know nobody does.
A man legally forbidden from possessing a firearm is in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. Have a nice day.
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday July 19 2023, @02:06AM (1 child)
Let me guess - you didn't make any significant art.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday July 22 2023, @09:06PM
Those who have seen it would disagree.
A man legally forbidden from possessing a firearm is in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. Have a nice day.