Generative A.I.’s copyright problem grows as lawsuits pile onto OpenAI, Google, and Meta

Comedian Sarah Silverman performs at the Ryman Auditorium on March 22, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Credit: Jason Kempin—Getty Images)

Hi, and welcome to Eye on A.I. David Meyer here in Berlin, filling in for Jeremy Kahn, who is over at our Brainstorm Tech conference in Utah (more on that later).

Copyright-related lawsuits have been an occasional feature of the generative A.I. boom since it began—a class action over Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot last November; artists and Getty Images suing Stability AI at the start of this year—but the past couple weeks have seen a real flurry of activity.