AI Company Cohere Faces Major Lawsuit Over Alleged Copyright Violations

Fourteen publishers accuse Cohere of unauthorized use of articles to train its AI models, seeking damages and injunctions.

The lawsuit, filed in New York, involves prominent publishers like Condé Nast, The Atlantic, and the Toronto Star, alleging Cohere scraped their content without permission or payment.
Plaintiffs claim Cohere's AI models reproduce copyrighted articles, including paywalled content, and even generate fabricated articles attributed to publishers, harming their brands.
The publishers seek up to $150,000 per infringed work, along with a permanent injunction to prevent further use of their content for AI training.
Cohere denies the allegations, calling the lawsuit 'misguided and frivolous,' and emphasizes its commitment to mitigating intellectual property risks in its enterprise-focused AI services.
This case follows similar lawsuits against other AI firms like OpenAI and Perplexity, reflecting growing tensions between content creators and AI developers over copyright issues.