New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot training
John Carreyrou and five other authors accuse six AI firms of using copyrighted books without permission to train language models, demanding fair compensation for authors.
- On Monday, John Carreyrou filed a federal lawsuit in California, alleging xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity pirated copyrighted books for training AI models, with five co-plaintiffs.
- Plaintiffs allege the companies used copyrighted books without permission to train large language models, depriving authors of compensation, and declined class-action settlements that dilute individual claims.
- The complaint cites Anthropic's August settlement paying $1.5 billion and criticizes class-action payouts as a tiny fraction of the US statutory ceiling of $US150,000 per infringed work.
- Spokespeople for the defendant companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and Kyle Roche, attorney at Freedman Normand Friedland, declined to comment on Monday.
- The case is the first to name Elon Musk's xAI as a defendant, led by New York Times investigative reporter and author John Carreyrou amid $15 billion and $230 billion fundraising reports for xAI and $100 billion and $830 billion for OpenAI.
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John Carreiro, known for his book Bad Blood, has filed a lawsuit against five AI companies that used his books in chatbot training.
Companies are accused of using writers' books to teach artificial intelligence.
John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies
These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."
The accusation: U.S. technology giants use copyrighted books to train their artificial intelligences. Several authors in the U.S. want to stop this, including a winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot training
An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk's xAI, Anthropic, Google , OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems.
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