Comedian Sarah Silverman has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using her content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models.
The class action lawsuit filed by Silverman in San Francisco federal court alleges that Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT maker OpenAI used copyrighted material to train chat bots.
The lawsuits underscores the legal risks developers of chat bots face when using copyrighted material to create apps that deliver realistic responses to user prompts.
Silverman says Meta and OpenAI used her voice without authorization to develop large language models-