Chicken Soup for the Soul, the company that publishes the eponymous inspirational anthologies, is the latest to sue tech companies over using their books to train LLMs. The company filed suit in the Northern District of California against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Perplexity, Nividia, and xAI, claiming that the tech companies pirated books from The Pile, LibGen, Z-Library, and Anna’s Archive when developing their AI models. Companies have previously stated that books are the best training material for LLMs. “The Chicken Soup for the Soul series is particularly valuable in this regard,” the complaint states. “Each volume contains dozens […]
