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December 18, 2025
Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors' work in AI training
The lawsuit is just the latest in a string of copyright-related legal complaints aimed at the AI industry.
TL;DR
- Adobe is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming its AI model, SlimLM, was trained on pirated books.
- Author Elizabeth Lyon alleges her copyrighted works were part of the training dataset.
- The lawsuit states SlimLM was trained on SlimPajama-627B, which is derived from the RedPajama dataset, including the Books3 collection.
- Books3 and RedPajama have been central to previous lawsuits against Apple and Salesforce concerning AI training data.
- This legal challenge is part of a growing trend of lawsuits against tech companies over the use of copyrighted material for AI training.
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