Chicken Soup for the Soul Sues AI Firms for Copyright Infringement

Chicken Soup for the Soul is suing tech companies OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and Nvidia for copyright infringement. The suit, filed March 17 in the Northern District of California, alleges that hundreds of its copyrighted works were ingested without authorization or compensation to train large language models. The lawsuit alleges that in 2018, an OpenAI employee downloaded pirated books from Library Genesis—a shadow library repeatedly enjoined by federal courts—to create internal datasets later used to train GPT-3. To review the complaint, click here.