Silverman expressed that the lawsuit against OpenAI will be challenging due to the company's wealth and influence. The plaintiffs are seeking injunctive relief and damages, accusing OpenAI of direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, violating The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unjust enrichment, violating the California and common law unfair competition laws, and negligence. However, a judge dismissed all claims except direct copyright infringement and unfair competition, leading to an amended lawsuit filed in March. OpenAI denied all allegations in a response to the amended complaint in August.
Key takeaways:
- Sarah Silverman, along with other authors, is involved in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, which allegedly used their books to train its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, without consent or compensation.
- The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court, Northern District of California San Francisco Division and includes charges of direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, violating The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unjust enrichment, violating the California and common law unfair competition laws, and negligence.
- Silverman discussed the lawsuit on Rob Lowe's Sirius XM podcast, stating that the legal proceedings against OpenAI will be challenging due to the company's wealth and influence.
- OpenAI, valued at $157 billion, denied all allegations in a court filing and maintained that its AI's responses are not reproduced from any preexisting source, but are unique syntheses of the language and facts it has learned.