This isn't the first time authors have called out AI companies for potentially stealing their work without compensation. Meta and Open AI declined to comment to the AP and Barron's. 'Most large language model creators provide little data on the underlying data powering their models.'

'The OpenAI suit notes that a request to ChatGPT to summarize Silverman's book 'The Bedwetter' returns a detailed summary of the book, and asserts that it wouldn't be possible to provide a summary of that variety without having the full text in the training model,' according to Barron's. The suit alleges that AI systems were trained on the authors' copyrighted works, likely taken from pirated digital-book collections known as 'shadow libraries,' the Associated Press reports. This week, comedian Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and Meta, which developed the AI model called LLaMA. Or in the case of conversational AI companies, until copyright holders say they're not OK with having their work used without permission to train the large language models powering today's generative AI giants. It's only funny until someone loses an eye.