Authors claim Apple Intelligence may be trained with pirated books

Apple is being sued by authors claiming Apple is using their works to train LLMs used for Apple Intelligence, in a lawsuit that echoes Anthropic’s expensive legal activity.

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Apple has endeavored to be ethical with its training of artificial intelligence models, which are used for Apple Intelligence and for other features in its operating systems. Despite going to great lengths to do things right, it has still become the target of a lawsuit over copyright.

A proposed class action lawsuit filed by authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, accuses Apple of using their copyrighted works to train its AI systems, reports Reuters. Filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the lawsuit says Apple is actively using a dataset based on pirated works.

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