John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies | TechCrunch

"A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and "Bad Blood" author John Carreyrou, is filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, it's because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement."

"While eligible writers can receive about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, some authors were dissatisfied with that resolution - it doesn't hold AI companies accountable for the actual act of using stolen books to train their models, which generate billions of dollars of revenue. According to the new lawsuit, the plaintiffs say that the proposed Anthropic settlement "seems to serve [the AI companies], not creators.""

A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and "Bad Blood" author John Carreyrou, filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, alleging the companies trained models on pirated copies of their books. A prior class action against Anthropic reached a judge's ruling that training on pirated books was legally permissible but that the original piracy was illegal. The Anthropic settlement of $1.5 billion offers eligible writers roughly $3,000 each, prompting dissatisfaction among some authors. The plaintiffs allege the settlement favors AI companies over creators and argue that companies should not extinguish high-value copyright claims at low rates.

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