Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey filed two class-action lawsuits in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on July 7, 2023, alleging that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's LLaMA models were trained on their copyrighted books without permission. The plaintiffs claim the AI systems can generate accurate summaries of their works and allege the companies intentionally removed copyright-management information (CMI) and trained on content from "shadow libraries" hosting millions of unauthorized copies. The suits seek permanent injunctions, damages, and profits, and they highlight an unresolved legal question: whether using copyrighted material to train generative AI models constitutes infringement under US copyright law. For financial institutions, this signals material balance-sheet and operational risk for AI vendors: training-data IP liability is transitioning from background concern to active litigation cost and potential balance-sheet reserve requirement.
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