Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training
Adobe faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books, including those by author Elizabeth Lyon, to train its SlimLM AI model.Summary
Adobe is being sued in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed by author Elizabeth Lyon, who claims the company used pirated books to train its SlimLM AI model. The lawsuit alleges that Adobe utilized a dataset, SlimPajama-627B, derived from the controversial Books3 collection – a dataset containing 191,000 books and a source of ongoing legal disputes within the tech industry. Lyon asserts her copyrighted works were included in this dataset without permission. This case mirrors similar lawsuits against other tech giants like Apple and Salesforce, all centered around the use of copyrighted material in AI training data. A recent case involving Anthropic, which resulted in a $1.5 billion settlement with authors, is seen as a potential precedent in these ongoing legal battles. The core issue revolves around the massive datasets required to train AI algorithms and the potential for those datasets to include illegally obtained copyrighted works.
(Source：TechCrunch)