Litigation partner Doug Mirell, an expert on First Amendment and intellectual property issues, spoke to the CBS World News Roundup about the class-action copyright infringement lawsuits filed by stand-up comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors against OpenAI and Meta Platforms for training and summarizing their books on these respective companies’ ChatGPT and LLaMa artificial intelligence products.

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[Silverman says] her book, titled "The Bedwetter," was used without consent to train artificial intelligence chat bots.  Doug Mirell is a First Amendment lawyer: “If you have a novel that is not in the public domain, people like SparkNotes or CliffsNotes would have had to obtain a license in order to summarize it.”