Sarah Silverman files lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement and joke theft

Comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors have filed class-action lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta, accusing the companies of illegally using copyrighted material to train their AI language models, including ChatGPT and LLaMA. The lawsuits allege violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unfair competition laws, and negligence. The authors claim that the AI models were trained on books copied from popular pirate e-book sites without the consent of the authors or publishers. The lawsuits seek permanent injunctive relief and jury trials to address the alleged copyright infringement.