A group of authors, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou, are filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, XAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books.
If this sounds familiar, that’s because another group of authors has already filed a class action lawsuit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that situation, The judge ruled It was legal for Anthropic and similar AI companies to train on pirated copies of books, but it was not legal to pirate the books in the first place.
While eligible authors could receive about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, some authors were dissatisfied With that resolution – it doesn’t hold AI companies accountable for the actual act of using stolen books to train their models, which generate billions of dollars Of revenue.
According to the new lawsuit, the plaintiffs say the proposed Anthropic settlement “appears to provide a service.” [the AI companies]Not the creator.”
“The LLM companies should not be able to so easily eliminate thousands of high-value claims on the cheap, no matter what the true cost of their massive, willful violations may have been,” the lawsuit says.
