John Carreyrou and different authors convey new lawsuit towards six main AI corporations

A bunch of writers, together with Theranos whistleblower and “Dangerous Blood” writer John Carreyrou, is submitting a lawsuit towards Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the businesses of coaching their fashions on pirated copies of their books.

If this sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of one other set of authors already filed a category motion go well with towards Anthropic for these similar acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the choose dominated that it was authorized for Anthropic and comparable AI corporations to coach on pirated copies of books, however that it was not authorized to pirate the books within the first place.

Whereas eligible writers can obtain about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, some authors have been dissatisfied with that decision — it doesn’t maintain AI corporations accountable for the precise act of utilizing stolen books to coach their fashions, which generate billions of {dollars} in income.

In response to the brand new lawsuit, the plaintiffs say that the proposed Anthropic settlement “appears to serve [the AI companies], not creators.”

“LLM corporations shouldn’t be in a position to so simply extinguish 1000’s upon 1000’s of high-value claims at bargain-basement charges, eliding what must be the true price of their huge willful infringement,” the lawsuit says.