Huckabee and Religious Authors Sue Tech Giants for Using Pirated Books to Train AI

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and 4 other religious authors are suing tech companies for allegedly using their books to train AI without permission.

The lawsuit accuses Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and EleutherAI of using a dataset called Books3 that scraped nearly 200,000 pirated books.

EleutherAI created an open-source dataset called the Pile to train large language models (LLMs), using Books3.

Meta and Microsoft used the Pile and Books3 to develop their LLM models. Bloomberg also used Books3.

The lawsuit alleges the companies knowingly used pirated books in datasets to train their AI systems.