By Gavin Boyle
Apple faces a class action lawsuit after two authors allege the company trained its Apple Intelligence AI on thousands of pirated books and other copyright-infringement methods.
“The day after Apple officially introduced Apple Intelligence, the company gained more than $200 billion in value: ‘the single most lucrative day in the history of the company,’” the lawsuit said, per Reuters.
“Generative AI models like those used in Apple Intelligence are only as good as the training data on which they are trained. Bad writing in training data results in less valuable, less useful data models. Good writing in training models makes AI outputs better and models more valuable,” the lawsuit continued, explaining why the stealing of copyrighted content was so lucrative for Apple. “This is why Apple and other AI companies prioritize and use high quality writing, like copyrighted works, to train and fine-tune their models.”
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The plaintiffs seek an unspecified amount of compensation for their works being used, along with Apple ceasing to use their writing to train the AI. Multiple similar lawsuits have surfaced in recent years to hold AI companies accountable for training their products on stolen content.
In December 2023, the New York Times sued ChatGPT creator OpenAI for training its chatbot on its articles.
“These tools were built with and continue to use independent journalism and content that is only available because we and our peers reported, edited, and fact-checked it at high cost and with considerable expertise,” the Times said, per CNBC. “Settled copyright law protects our journalism and content. If Microsoft and OpenAI want to use our work for commercial purposes, the law requires that they first obtain our permission. They have not done so.”
Meanwhile the AI image generation tool Midjourney faces lawsuits from multiple major Hollywood studios which claim the company trained its tool using their copyrighted IP.
“The heart of what we do is develop stories and characters to entertain our audiences, bringing to life the vision and passion of our creative partners,” a Warner Bros. Discovery spokesperson said after its lawsuit against Midjourney was filed. “Midjourney is blatantly and purposefully infringing copyrighted works, and we filed this suit to protect our content, our partners, and our investments.”
As many companies look to benefit from the use of AI, it is interesting to see how some of them are also waging war on the technology. Companies like Warner Bros. seem to want it both ways, but whether or not they will be able to remains to be seen.
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