A group of authors led by John Carreyrou, the journalist and author of Bad Blood, has filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, alleging the companies trained their AI models on pirated copies of copyrighted books. The action follows earlier litigation against Anthropic, where a court ruled that while model training could be lawful, the underlying act of book piracy was not.
The plaintiffs argue that prior settlements failed to adequately address the scale and impact of alleged infringement, particularly as AI companies generate substantial revenues from models trained on copyrighted works. The lawsuit contends that existing resolutions prioritize corporate interests over creators’ rights and seeks greater accountability for the unauthorized use of literary content in large-scale AI training.
