Google, xAI, OpenAI sued over copyright infringement in AI training

Investigative reporter John Carreyrou has sued Google, xAI, OpenAI, Meta Platforms, and Perplexity for using copyrighted books without permission to train their AI systems. The lawsuit, filed with five other writers, accuses the companies of pirating their books and feeding them into large language models that power their chatbots. This is one of several copyright cases brought against tech companies over the use of copyrighted work in AI training.