Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on Friday in Northern California federal court.
They allege that Apple illegally used their copyrighted books without permission to train its “OpenELM” large language models lawsuit is part of a growing wave of legal cases from authors and news outlets against major technology companies over intellectual property violations.
Anthropic also announced Friday, it would pay $1.5 billion to settle a similar class action, marking what lawyers called the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history Microsoft and Meta have faced similar claims.
The plaintiffs claim Apple used a known collection of pirated books for AI training without attempting to compensate authors for their contributions to this potentially lucrative venture.
This case highlights the escalating tensions between the tech industry and intellectual property holders in the AI era, as companies face increasing scrutiny over their data collection practices for training artificial intelligence systems.
