A group of authors have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT) in a New York federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model, Reuters’ Blake Brittain reports. Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, Daniel Okrent and several others alleged that Microsoft used pirated digital versions of their books to teach its AI to respond to human prompts. The complaint against Microsoft came a day after a California federal judge ruled that Anthropic made fair use under U.S. copyright law of authors’ material to train its AI systems but may still be liable for pirating their books.
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