AI Book Lawsuit: High-Profile Authors Take On AI Giants Over Stolen Content In a bold legal move echoing across Silicon Valley and publishing houses alike, a coalition of prominent authors—including John Carreyrou, the investigative journalist behind <em style="border-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1f; font-family: system-ui, ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Inter, NotoSansHans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> Bad Blood</em> —has filed a new lawsuit against six major AI companies. The suit targets Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing them of training their large language models on pirated copies of copyrighted books. This latest legal action seeks to challenge not just how AI systems are built—but who profits from stolen intellectual property. Credit: Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images If you’ve heard this before, you’re not imagining things. A previous class-action lawsuit against Anthropic resulted in a $1.5 billion settlement, offering qualifying authors roughly $3,000 each. But many writers, including Carreyrou, argue that the payout doesn’t address the core issue: AI firms allegedly profiting from works they never licensed. The…
