Summary
In a federal lawsuit, a pair of professors from the State University of New York claimed that Apple Inc. violated copyright law by utilizing pirated materials and duplicates of e-books sold on its own books app to train its AI tool, Apple Intelligence.
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Apple’s OpenELM model, one of several comprising Apple Intelligence, was trained on datasets including a pirated database called Books3 that contains the professors’ works, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik said in a proposed class action filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Apple “continues to retain private AI training-data, including pirated books,” to train future models without compensating rightsholders or seeking their consent, the professors said. The licensing market for AI training data is valued at roughly $2.5 billion and may reach nearly $30 billion within a decade, they added.
Claims that downloading materials from online “shadow libraries” infringes copyrights have cropped up across lawsuits on model training against a range of AI companies—including another proposed class action filed against Apple last month. Plaintiffs have specifically alleged infringement using the Books3 dataset in lawsuits against
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This article was originally published in Bloomberg Law.
