Authors File a Lawsuit Against Meta, Microsoft, and Bloomberg in Latest AI Copyright Clash

A group of writers including former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and best-selling Christian author Lysa TerKeurst have filed a lawsuit in New York federal court that accuses Meta META.O, Microsoft MSFT.O and Bloomberg of using their work to train artificial intelligence-based chatbots without permission.

The proposed class-action copyright lawsuit filed on Tuesday said that the companies used the controversial “Books3” dataset, which the writers said contains thousands of pirated books, to teach their large-language models how to respond to human prompts.

The lawsuit also accused AI research group EleutherAI of copyright infringement for allegedly providing data used to train the companies’ systems that includes Books3.

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