Sarah Silverman, authors allege Meta used copyrighted content to train AI model

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A lawsuit against Meta filed by authors and content creators alleges the company trained its artificial intelligence (AI) models on copyrighted materials despite Meta’s lawyers’ warning of the legal ramifications, according to a new filing in the suit.

The lawsuit was filed this summer by a group of content creators including comedian Sarah Silverman, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon and other prominent authors. They allege that Facebook’s parent company Meta infringed their copyrights by using their work to train its Llama AI model. Large language models train AI programs using vast amounts of data like text, images and video to teach the program how to associate users’ prompts with existing content.

The group revised its lawsuit after a California judge dismissed part of it last month while allowing them to revise their suit. The amended complaint filed in federal court late Monday includes chat logs of a Meta-affiliated researcher who discussed the use of a dataset on…

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