Sarah Silverman and two other people are suing Meta and the artificial intelligence site OpenAI over allegedly using their content without permission.

In order to prevent Meta Platforms and OpenAI from allegedly using their content without their consent to train artificial intelligence language models, comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed lawsuits for copyright infringement.

In their proposed class action lawsuits, Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden claim that OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and Facebook parent company Meta used copyrighted content to train chatbots. The lawsuits were filed in San Francisco federal court on Friday.

On Sunday, requests for comment from Meta and OpenAI, a private company supported by Microsoft Corp., were not immediately fulfilled.

The lawsuits highlight the legal risks chat bot developers take when utilizing vast repositories of copyrighted content to produce apps that provide accurate user prompt responses.

The so-called large language models that Meta and OpenAI claim are effective tools for automating tasks by mimicking human conversation were created using Silverman, Kadrey, and Golden's books, according to the three.

The plaintiffs are suing Meta on the grounds that leaked information about the firm's artificial intelligence business demonstrates their work was used without their consent.

Summaries of the plaintiffs' work produced by ChatGPT, according to the lawsuit against OpenAI, show the bot was trained on their copyrighted content.

On behalf of a large group of copyright owners whose works are allegedly being infringed upon, the lawsuits demand unspecified monetary damages.