Legal Battles Escalate as Authors and Music Publishers Sue Tech Giants Over AI Copyright Infringement

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and other authors have filed a lawsuit against Meta, Microsoft, and Bloomberg, accusing them of using their work without permission to train artificial intelligence systems. The lawsuit claims that the companies used the "Books3" dataset, which allegedly contains pirated books, to teach their large language models. The authors argue that their books were misused and seek damages and an order to block the misuse of their work. This is one of several recent lawsuits filed by copyright holders against tech companies over the unauthorized use of their content for AI training.