Investigative reporter John Carreyrou of the New York Times filed a lawsuit against xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and Perplexity on Monday for allegedly training their AI models on copyrighted books without permission. Carreyrou is perhaps data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://www.engadget.com/2018-04-19-theranos-video-game-stars-investigative-journalist.html” data-ylk=”slk:best known;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “> for exposing the Theranos fraudulent blood test scandal.
According to data-i13n=”cpos:2;pos:1″ href=”https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-york-times-reporter-sues-google-xai-openai-over-chatbot-training-2025-12-22/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Reuters;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>, the lawsuit was filed alongside five other writers who all claim big tech companies have been violating their intellectual property rights in the name of building large language models.
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