[PDF], make similar claims. The trio also make a point of stating that their books, including Silverman's book, a comical autobiography titled, contain certain copyright management information that would have been included in the legit, copyrighted books. This is the basis of the third count they allege against OpenAI, a claim it breached the DCMA by removing the copyright management info.
OpenAI trains its large language models by scraping text from the internet, and although it hasn't revealed exactly what resources it has swallowed up, the startup has admitted to training its systems on hundreds of thousands of books protected by copyright, and stored on websites like Sci-Hub or Bibliotik.
All of the authors believe that their books have been ingested by ChatGPT without their permission, and that OpenAI is profiting from their work without attribution. They have launched a class-action lawsuit for other authors to join, and are requesting compensatory damages and permanent injunctions to stop OpenAI from continuing in its actions.
Chief information officer Cindy Stoddard warned staff to protect the tech giant's data and to not use generative AI tools in a way that could harm its business, customers, or workforce,Adobe hasn't banned third-party applications like ChatGPT outright, but has strict restrictions in place on what is and isn't allowed on such systems.
They should also make sure to opt out of having content from their conversations being used as training data. In addition they can't sign up to use these tools with their own private email addresses or pay for a subscription with their corporate credit cards .