Mike Huckabee and Religious Authors Sue Tech Giants Over AI Copyright Infringement

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and other authors have filed a lawsuit against Meta, Microsoft, EleutherAI, and Bloomberg, alleging that their books were pirated and used in datasets to train AI models without permission or compensation. This class action suit is the latest in a series of authors accusing tech companies of copyright infringement in the development of generative AI models. The case revolves around a dataset called "Books3," which contains over 180,000 works and is part of a larger collection called the Pile. AI companies rely on vast amounts of public data for training, leading to debates and legal actions regarding compensation for data providers.