Sarah Silverman, Authors Hit OpenAI, Meta With Copyright Suits

Comedian Sarah Silverman and a group of authors sued OpenAI, Inc. and Meta Platforms, Inc. for copyright infringement, claiming the companies’ artificial intelligence generators used the authors’ copyrighted books as training material without permission.

Silverman—author of “The Bedwetter"—and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey filed a pair of proposed class actions in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against the technology companies on Friday, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations and unfair competition. The authors—seeking a permanent injunction, damages and profits—claimed that when prompted, OpenAI’s Chat GPT generates summaries of their works and many ...