Overview

• Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik filed a proposed class-action complaint in U.S. federal court in California alleging Apple trained Apple Intelligence on pirated books.
• The suit claims Apple drew from illegal shadow libraries and cites datasets associated with those sources, including Books3 within The Pile.
• Plaintiffs say their works, Champions of Illusion and Sleights of Mind, were among the titles copied without permission.
• They seek unspecified monetary damages and an injunction barring Apple from using their copyrighted material.
• Apple and representatives for the plaintiffs did not immediately comment, and the filing comes as similar cases target other AI developers, with Anthropic recently agreeing to a $1.5 billion settlement.