Anthropic settles, Apple sued: Tech giant faces lawsuit over AI copyright dispute

Apple has been drawn into the growing legal battle over the use of copyrighted works in artificial intelligence training, after two authors filed a lawsuit in the United States accusing the technology giant of misusing their books.

Claims of pirated dataset use

The proposed class action, lodged on Friday in federal court in Northern California, alleges that Apple copied protected works without permission, acknowledgement or compensation. Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson claim their books were included in a dataset of pirated material that…