Apple's AI Caught in a Lawsuit over Pirated Books
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple, claiming the company used pirated copies of books to train its AI.
Two neuroscience professors, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, are suing Apple for using their works, Champions of Illusion and Sleights of Mind, without permission.
Even Apple’s AI apparently couldn’t resist a bit of torrenting nostalgia.
- The lawsuit accuses Apple of using the books to train its Foundation Models and OpenELM language models.
- The books were part of a massive “shadow library” called Books3, which scraped roughly 186,000 books from a private BitTorrent tracker called Bibliotik.
Author's summary: Apple faces lawsuit over AI training on pirated books.