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December 23, 2025
John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies
These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."
TL;DR
- Authors, including John Carreyrou, are filing a lawsuit against AI companies (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, Perplexity).
- The lawsuit alleges that these companies used pirated copies of authors' books to train their AI models.
- A previous ruling found AI training on copyrighted material legal, but the act of pirating was deemed illegal.
- Some authors are dissatisfied with a settlement, feeling it doesn't hold AI companies accountable for using stolen books.
- The new lawsuit claims the Anthropic settlement serves AI companies rather than creators and allows them to extinguish claims at low rates.
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