J.B. MacKinnon of Vancouver has filed class action lawsuits against Anthropic, Databricks, Meta, and Nvidia, alleging they illegally used copyrighted works by Canadian writers to train their large language models. The lawsuit claims MacKinnon’s books were part of a 196,640-book dataset that Nvidia used without securing licensing fees or author consent. “The models were entirely built on the mining of copyrighted work,” MacKinnon told the CBC.
Source: Canadian Author Sues Four AI Companies for Copyright Infringement