Apple accused of illegally training AI models on pirated books

A new proposed class action suit was filed in the federal court in Northern California today, accusing Apple of illegally using books to train its AI models. Here are the details.

Authors base the accusation on Apple’s own documents

As reported by Reuters, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Robertson are accusing Apple of using a pirated dataset, in which their work was included. From the lawsuit:

“But Apple is building part of this new enterprise using Books3, a dataset of…