Where does the OpenAI artificial intelligence program get its content from? when you create a text at a devilish speed? Do you copy them from other already existing texts or generate your own by mixing a huge amount of data? To what extent is this reworking a plagiarism of texts that are subject to copyright? These are questions that thousands of users have asked themselves and that could find a precise answer as a result of the lawsuits filed by the writers. Paul Tremblay y Mona Awad and, in a separate case, actress SarahSilverman. Whistleblowers claim the California-based company used his books without consent to “train” the ChatGPT program and that, in doing so, they violated copyright laws.
In the case of Sarah Silverman, her lawsuit is also directed against Goal (the parent group of Facebook) as well as OpenAI, and alleges that the companies illegally used their memories The Bedwetter to train their Artificial Intelligence language models.
Silverman is represented by the same lawyers who have advised Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad and signs their lawsuit along with their colleagues Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey. All three claim that they never “consented to the use of their copyrighted books as training material” for intelligence.
Both Silverman and Tremblay Awad are relevant firms. Tremblay, born in Aurora, Colorado, has published such novels as The cabin at the end of the world y A head full of ghosts and is a bestselling author in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres. Awad, a Canadian novelist, has been very well received with works such as Bunny y 13 ways of looking at a fat girl. Margaret Atwood said of her that it is hers her “apparent literary heir”. And Silverman has been a star on television since the 1990s when he started working on Saturday Night Live.
Their lawsuits seek to explore the legality of the program that, according to the authors, He “swallowed” his books and “used them to train” ChatGPT, to the point of generating “very accurate summaries” of his novels. In the document filed by Tremblay and Awad in a San Francisco court, it is indicated that the company led by Sam Altman and backed by Microsoft’s million-dollar investment has been unduly enriched by the use of your copyrighted material.