US EditionNew 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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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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New York Times reporter John Carreyrou has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, Meta Platforms, and Google, alleging that their artificial intelligence models were trained using copyrighted books obtained through illicit online repositories. 📲 John Carreyrou Files Lawsuit against xAI, Google, Meta Over AI Copyright Infringement, New York Times Reporter Alleges Unauthorised Use of Books.
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On Monday, New York Times investigative reporter and author John Carreyrou filed a federal lawsuit accusing major AI companies of illegally using copyrighted books to train their chatbots without permission. Authors Accuse AI Giants Of Copyright Theft Carreyrou, best known for authoring "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup," sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, Meta Platforms, Inc. (…
A group of authors led by investigative journalist John Carreyrou has sued several technology companies such as Google, OpenAI and Meta.
New York Times Reporter Sues Google, OpenAI, Meta over AI training
Copyright protected content copied from PhoneWorld website. A New York Times reporter has filed a lawsuit against several major artificial intelligence companies including Google, OpenAI and Meta over AI training. The case focuses on how AI systems are trained and whether copyrighted material is being used legally. It has drawn attention from journalists, authors, and the tech industry worldwide. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Calif…
"Bad Blood" author John Carreiro filed the lawsuit in a federal court in California along with five other authors. • The claim: AI companies are pirated books they wrote and feeding them into the large language models (LLMs) that power the companies' chatbots.
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