John Carrero and co-authors have filed a new lawsuit against six major AI companies

A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” author John Carreiro, is suing Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated versions of their books.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because another group of authors has already filed a class action lawsuit against Anthropic for the same acts of copyright infringement. In this case, Judge’s ruling It’s legal for Anthropics and similar AI companies to practice on pirated copies of books, but it wasn’t legal to pirate books in the first place.

While eligible writers could receive about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion humanitarian settlement, some authors were… Not satisfied With this decision – he does not hold AI companies responsible for the actual act of using stolen books to train their models, which results in generating… Billions of dollars In revenue.

According to the new lawsuit, the plaintiffs say that the proposed humane settlement “appears to serve (AI companies), not the creators.”

“LLM firms should not be able to easily cancel thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at rock-bottom prices, ignoring what should be the true cost of their massive willful infringement,” the lawsuit says.