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Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the main issue of contention is just using copyrighted work to train generative AI without the author’s permission regardless.

You must define that in legal terms. This is a lawsuit, after all. It's not illegal to "just use" copyrighted work. The words "generative AI" are not in a federal or state bill anywhere in the US.

They can have an "issue of contention" all they want, but if they can't prove anything legally, they have nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly! You can't just be like "AI bad" in front of the judge ._.