Celebrities and Authors Take Legal Action Against OpenAI and Meta for Unauthorized Use of Content

Novelists Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, along with comedian Sarah Silverman and novelists Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, accusing the startup of training its ChatGPT language model on their books without permission, violating copyright laws. The authors claim that ChatGPT generates accurate summaries of their books, providing evidence that their work was used for training. OpenAI admits to training its models on hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books scraped from the internet. The authors are seeking compensatory damages and injunctions to stop OpenAI's actions. In a separate development, Adobe has banned its employees from using private email addresses or corporate credit cards to sign up for and pay for machine learning products and services, citing data privacy concerns.