Reporter New York Times, John Carreyrou, sued a number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies for using works without permission. The companies sued were xAI, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity.
This lawsuit was filed in the California Federal Court on December 22 along with five other authors. In the lawsuit, Carreyrou accused the four companies of training their AI models with copyrighted books without permission.
The lawsuit is based on the use of books for AI training without compensation. Carreyrou's lawsuit attracted attention because xAI, Elon Musk's company integrated with X, was first mentioned in a copyright case.
The plaintiffs refused to join a class action lawsuit. According to them, a settlement with the system would be detrimental to individual writers due to the low potential compensation.
In the document submitted to the court, the plaintiffs stated that AI companies should not remove high-value claims at low prices. The authors demand compensation commensurate with the potential economic losses they have suffered.
"LLM companies should not be able to easily remove thousands of high-value claims at very low prices," the plaintiffs wrote in their lawsuit, citing Tech in Asia on Tuesday, December 23.
This lawsuit also refers to the Anthropic case, which previously agreed to a settlement of 1.5 billion US dollars (Rp25.1 trillion). The plaintiffs consider that the distribution of compensation is still too small for the creators of the work.
They stated that the group members in the case only received about 2 percent of the maximum value of the law. This is what prompted Carreyrou and his team to take legal action with a self-initiated lawsuit in court.
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