"Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model. Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, professors at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York, told the court in a proposed class action on Thursday that Apple used illegal "shadow libraries" of pirated books to train Apple Intelligence."
"The lawsuit is one of many high-stakes cases brought by copyright owners such as authors, news outlets, and music labels against tech companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms, over the unauthorized use of their work in AI training. Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from another group of authors over the training of its AI-powered chatbot Claude in August."
Two neuroscientists filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in federal court alleging Apple misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence AI. The plaintiffs are Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, professors at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. The complaint alleges Apple used illegal "shadow libraries" of pirated books and other copyright-infringing materials scraped from the internet as training data. The plaintiffs say the pirated works included their books Champions of Illusion and Sleights of Mind. The lawsuit joins multiple suits by copyright owners against tech companies over unauthorized AI training use. Apple and the plaintiffs did not immediately comment.
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