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Authors sue six AI giants for book piracy
Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou and other authors are suing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity for book piracy. The AI companies allegedly stole their works from illegal online libraries. The lawsuit has a strong case, and this time the plaintiffs are going after the big bucks instead of the "pennies" of a class action settlement.
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