Author John Carreyrou, joined by five other authors, has opted out of the Anthropic settlement and is suing the company directly for copyright infringement — adding Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity as additional defendants (at least for now, until the companies move for separate actions). The allegation is that all of the plaintiff companies obtained pirated copies of the defendants’ books in order to train their large language models, and then further “made additional unlicensed copies of the unlawfully obtained books, including during ingestion, preprocessing, and model training and/or retrieval-augmented generation.” The authors — suing as individuals rather than […]
