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CTOnews.com, July 10 (Xinhua)-- famous American comedian Sarah Silverman (Sarah Silverman) has sued OpenAI, the developer of the artificial intelligence chat robot ChatGPT, for illegally using her books, Businessinsider reported.

In addition to Silverman, two other writers have joined the lawsuit: Christopher Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey. According to court documents seen by Insider, the three plaintiffs accused OpenAI of infringing their copyright because the company used their books as a source of data when training ChatGPT without their consent.

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence model that absorbs huge amounts of information from websites, news articles, books and other sources to learn how to have a natural conversation with users. The plaintiffs claim that ChatGPT generates a summary of their work when users enter relevant keywords. They think this is copyright infringement because they do not authorize their books to be used in ChatGPT training.

Plaintiffs such as Silverman also pointed out that OpenAI "made commercial profits and made substantial profits" by using them and many other copyright works.

Works involved in the lawsuit include Silverman's memoir The Bedwetter, Gordon's supernatural thriller Ararat, and Kadre's dark urban fantasy novel Sandman Slim. The three plaintiffs demanded a jury trial and demanded legal and other compensation.

Although OpenAI has never revealed what books it uses to train ChatGPT, court documents say many may have come from "shadow library" sites that illegally aggregate otherwise hard-to-get content. Daniel Gervais, a law professor at Vanderbilt University, has previously said he expects more lawsuits involving copyright law and generative artificial intelligence in the future.

CTOnews.com noted that the Writers Association of America (The Authors Guild) published an open letter in June calling on big technology companies and artificial intelligence companies to obtain writers'"permission" to use their copyrighted works to train generative artificial intelligence programs, and to "fairly compensate writers" when using writers' copyrighted works.

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