Apple has been hit with a lawsuit accusing the company of using copyrighted books without permission to train its artificial intelligence systems.
The case claims Apple built its large language models on a dataset containing pirated works.
Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson brought the proposed class action, alleging that Apple failed to credit or compensate creators whose works were included.
The lawsuit states, “Apple has not attempted to pay these authors for their contributions to this potentially lucrative venture.”
The lawsuit against Apple specifically alleges the company employed its “OpenELM” language models using a trove of pirated books.
Hendrix, a New York resident, and Roberson, who lives in Arizona, argue their works were part of this dataset.
