Lawyers square off in fight over voice data used to train AI
Lawyers are representing plaintiffs suing major tech companies for allegedly using voice data without consent to train AI models under Illinois privacy law.Summary
Lawyers are leading a class action lawsuit against nine major tech companies, including Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, in Illinois federal court. The plaintiffs allege that these companies violated the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by using thousands of hours of recorded human voices without permission to train AI systems. The suit, representing journalists, podcasters, and audiobook narrators, claims each defendant faces hundreds of millions in damages under BIPA's penalty structure. The companies have denied the accusations, arguing that the law does not apply as the alleged misuse did not occur within Illinois, and have filed motions to dismiss. Meanwhile, in a related development, a group of law firms has appealed a judge's order denying them fees from a $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement.
(Source：The Economic Times)