Reporter sues AI companies

Investigative reporter John Carreyrou has filed a lawsuit against xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity for allegedly using copyrighted books without permission to train their AI models. Joined by five other authors, they claim these companies are violating their intellectual property rights. This case, notable for not being a class action, seeks to prevent the dismissal of numerous valuable claims at minimal costs. Perplexity stated it “doesn’t index books,” while Anthropic has faced similar lawsuits from authors.

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