{"id":508145,"date":"2025-10-12T00:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=508145"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:49:48","slug":"apple-sued-over-use-of-copyrighted-books-to-train-apple-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/apple-sued-over-use-of-copyrighted-books-to-train-apple-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York: Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model. Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, professors at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York, told the court, opens new tab in a proposed class action on Thursday that Apple used illegal \u201cshadow libraries\u201d of pirated books to train Apple Intelligence. A separate group of authors sued Apple last month for allegedly misusing their work in AI training. TECH COMPANIES FACING LAWSUITS The lawsuit is one of many high-stakes cases brought by copyright owners such as authors, news outlets, and music labels against tech companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, and Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab, over the unauthorized use of their work in AI training. Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from another group of authors over the training of its AI-powered chatbot Claude in August. Spokespeople for Apple and Martinez-Conde, Macknik, and their attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the new complaint on Friday. Apple Intelligence is a suite of AI-powered features integrated into iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad. \u201cThe day after Apple officially introduced Apple Intelligence, the company gained more than $200 billion in value: \u2018the single most lucrative day in the history of the company,\u2019\u201d the lawsuit said. According to the complaint, Apple utilized datasets comprising thousands of pirated books as well as other copyright-infringing materials scraped from the internet to train its AI system. The lawsuit said that the pirated books included Martinez-Conde and Macknik\u2019s \u201cChampions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles\u201d and \u201cSleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions.\u201d News Agency<br \/>\nThe professors requested an unspecified amount of monetary damages and an order for Apple to stop misusing their copyrighted work.<br \/>\nReporting by Blake Brittain in Washington, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Rod Nickel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model. 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