Huckabee and Religious Authors Sue Tech Giants for Allegedly Training AI on Pirated Books Without Permission
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Mike Huckabee and religious authors sued tech companies for allegedly training AI on their books without permission.
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The lawsuit targets Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and EleutherAI.
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The lawsuit alleges the companies used "books3," a collection of pirated books, to train AI models.
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The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against continuing to use their works without permission.
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AI models like ChatGPT are trained on billions of sentences from the internet and books.
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Tech companies argue web scraping falls under fair use provisions of copyright law.
