Salesforce Sued By Authors Over AI Software

An anonymous reader shares a report: Cloud-computing firm Salesforce was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit by two authors who alleged the company used thousands of books without permission to train its AI software. Novelists Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore said in the complaint that Salesforce infringed copyrights by using their work to train its xGen AI models to process language.

You read my book...

[Local ID10T]

I'm suing you!

(Previous lawsuits have found training on copyrighted materiel without prior permission or specific payment to be legal. The courts have found that materiel downloaded from pirate sources was illegally obtained and any systems trained on the illegally obtained materiel must be deleted.)

It READ the books

[nospam007]

Like we all and some few of us have even a similar memory.

This is the right way

[techno-vampire]

We're never going to get proper laws passed to put an end to this and any laws we do pass won' have any teeth to them. However, people whose works have been gobbled up by these chatbots without proper compensation can always sue, and get their suits certified as class action suits. Defending themselves from multiple suits is going to cost these scumbags money, and the settlements considerably more. As they're only in it for the money, take away the profits and eventually they'll give up and start looking