John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies

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A radical of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” writer John Carreyrou, is filing a suit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of grooming their models connected pirated copies of their books.

If this sounds familiar, it’s due to the fact that different acceptable of authors already filed a people enactment suit against Anthropic for these aforesaid acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was ineligible for Anthropic and akin AI companies to bid connected pirated copies of books, but that it was not ineligible to pirate the books successful the archetypal place.

While eligible writers tin person astir $3,000 from the $1.5 cardinal Anthropic settlement, immoderate authors were dissatisfied with that solution — it doesn’t clasp AI companies accountable for the existent enactment of utilizing stolen books to bid their models, which make billions of dollars of revenue.

According to the caller lawsuit, the plaintiffs accidental that the projected Anthropic colony “seems to service [the AI companies], not creators.”

“LLM companies should not beryllium capable to truthful easy extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims astatine bargain-basement rates, eliding what should beryllium the existent outgo of their monolithic willful infringement,” the suit says.

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