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Publisher Sues Big Tech Over Copyright
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Chicken Soup for the Soul sued Apple, Google, Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI in U.S. federal court late Tuesday, alleging the companies copied pirated books to train commercial large language models. The complaint cites use of shadow‑library datasets including The Pile, LibGen and Z‑Library and alleges Apple Foundation Models relied on The Pile, though Apple said The Pile was used only for research.
Key Points
- 1Alleges firms copied pirated books from The Pile, LibGen and Z‑Library to train LLMs.
- 2Highlights potential large-scale copyright infringement impacting authors, publishers, and commercial LLM development practices.
- 3Requires practitioners to audit training data provenance and review licensing to mitigate legal and IP risk.
Scoring Rationale
High-impact, industry-wide legal allegation affecting major LLM developers; limited depth on evidentiary specifics reduces certainty.
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