Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright

The US comedian and author Sarah Silverman is suing the ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for copyright infringement over claims that their artificial intelligence models were trained on her work without permission.

Silverman has filed the suits along with two authors, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, in which they claim the AI models developed by OpenAI and Meta used their work as part of their training data.

The suits claim the authors’ works were obtained from “shadow library” sites that have “long been of interest to the AI-training community”.