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Authors Sue Apple, Allege Pirated Books Trained OpenELM AI

The filing seeks class status with damages, an injunction, plus potential destruction of affected models.

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A man check his phone near an Apple logo outside its store in Shanghai, China September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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Overview

  • Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action in the Northern District of California accusing Apple of using their books without permission to train its OpenELM language models.
  • The complaint alleges Apple relied on Books3, described as a trove of pirated books, reached via the RedPajama dataset referenced in Apple’s OpenELM research paper.
  • The plaintiffs say their published works appear in the pirated dataset and that Apple copied protected material without consent, credit, or compensation.
  • Apple and the attorneys for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the filing.
  • The case arrives during a surge of AI data‑training litigation, including Anthropic’s disclosure of a $1.5 billion settlement with authors without an admission of liability.