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Harvey Randall

Stand-up comedian and actor Sarah Silverman joins trio suing OpenAI and Meta over claims their AI models 'ingested and used' copyrighted work without permission

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On July 7 Sarah Silverman, a stand-up comedian—also known for her acting work as the voice of Vanellope in the Wreck-It Ralph movies—joined authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey in twin lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta.

As reported by The Verge earlier this week, the suit concerns Silverman's written work, with all three claiming that both ChatGPT and LLaMA (Meta's own large language model program) had been trained on data harvested from “shadow library” sites such as "Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others." 

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