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Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training
- On Friday, a proposed class-action lawsuit was submitted in Northern California by two writers who allege that Apple utilized pirated books without authorization to train its OpenELM AI language models.
- The lawsuit follows a $1.5 billion settlement announced earlier this week by AI startup Anthropic, which resolved a similar case alleging unauthorized use of authors' books to train the Claude chatbot.
- The complaint asserts that Apple copied protected works from the Books3 dataset, a known collection of pirated books including the plaintiffs', without consent or compensation despite commercial use.
- Attorneys characterized Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement as the biggest copyright payout publicly disclosed to date, with Justin Nelson highlighting that it sends a clear warning against using copyrighted materials sourced from pirate websites.
- This lawsuit adds to an expanding wave of litigation against major AI firms like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, raising questions about intellectual property protections and author compensation in AI training.
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Apple has landed in legal trouble, this time over how it may be training its artificial intelligence systems. Two authors, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, have filed a lawsuit against the tech giant in a federal court in Northern California. Their allegation? That Apple used their copyrighted books to train its AI models without consent, credit, or any form of compensation, Reuters reported. The proposed class action lawsuit adds to a growi…
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