On July 7, standup comedian Sarah Silverman, best known as the voice of Vanellope in the movie "Wreck-It Ralph," along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, filed twin lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta.

As The Verge reported earlier this week, the lawsuit concerns Silverman's writings, in which all three claim that both ChatGPT and LLaMA (Meta's own large-scale language modeling program) are "Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, Others", claiming that they were trained on data taken from "shadow library" sites such as.

OpenAI's lawsuit offers three exhibits demonstrating the model's ability to summarize copyrighted books with few errors. They include Silverman's memoir The Bedwetter, Christopher Golden's horror thriller Ararat, and Richard Kadrey's supernatural fantasy noir thriller Sandman Slim.

Defendants derive commercial benefit from the use of Plaintiffs' and Class Members' works by and through their use of ChatGPT.

The lawsuit against Meta, on the other hand, alleges that these same books and several others were included in the datasets used to study LLaMA. The complaint specifically mentions ThePile, which was created by a company called EleutherAI.

The complaint cites EleutherAI's own description of the dataset, which it says uses Bibliotik: "Bibliotik consists of fiction and non-fiction books.

And the lawsuit explains: "These shadow libraries have long been of interest to the AI training community because they host large amounts of copyrighted material. As such, these shadow libraries are patently illegal.

Attorneys Matthew Batalik and Joseph Savery, who represent the authors, write on their litigation website: "Much of the material in the training datasets used by OpenAI and Meta is derived from copyrighted works, including books authored by the plaintiffs . which were copied by OpenAI and Meta without consent, credit or compensation.

These three authors joined the growing uproar over the use of AI. Earlier this year, a class action lawsuit was filed against StabilityAI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. Just this month, we reported on the use of AI in porn voice mods and the growing concern in the voice actors and mod community about Unity's unpopular new AI tool.

While this technology could be used in game development, it is clear that the law is scrambling to catch up, and as AI becomes a multi-industry, big elephant in the room, it will be interesting to see the outcome of this lawsuit and others that will follow.