Appleโฃ is facingโฃ a second proposed โclassโ actionโค lawsuit in asโ many months alleging copyright infringement related to the training of its artificialโ intelligence models. Neuroscience professors Susanaโ Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik of SUNY Downstateโค Health sciences University in Brooklyn, NY, filed the suit, claiming Apple used their copyrightedโข worksโฃ without permission.
The lawsuit, first reported by Bloomberg Law, alleges โApple trained its โฃAI using pirated books obtained through “shadow libraries” and web-crawling software.โค Thisโ follows a similar suit filedโ recently by a separate pair of authors who โalso claim Apple infringed on their copyrights by using published works to train its Apple โฃIntelligence modelsโ without consent.
The growing numberโ of copyright claims against tech companies developing AI highlights theโข legal challenges surrounding the use ofโค copyrighted material in AI training.OpenAI is also embroiled in a similar dispute with The โNew Yorkโ Times.Earlier this year, Anthropic settled a โclass action lawsuit for $1.5 billion with 500,000 authors, establishing a potential precedentโ in these types of cases.
