Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying

Anthropic sued by authors over alleged misuse of copyrighted works for AI training

The complaint alleges that Anthropic used pirated versions of books by hundreds of thousands of authors to develop its AI models without proper authorization or compensation.

Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’

Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.

Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.

Music Publishers Sue AI Company Anthropic for Copyright Infringement

Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and ABKCO claim that the large language model Claud was trained on copyrighted works

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram

A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)

The media spectacle of generative AI (in which AI companies' breathless claims of their software's sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many creative workers, a group that's already traumatized by extractive abuse by media and tech companies.

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules

Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Andreessen Horowitz are trying to keep AI developers from having to pay for copyrighted material used in AI training.

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

The fight over downloadable AI is not really about a ban - Sensemaker

Companies want access, Anthropic wants testing, and Washington and Beijing are arguing over alleged copying.

Exclusive: Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says

Multiple artificial intelligence companies are circumventing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content for use in generative AI systems, content licensing startup TollBit has told publishers.