The former governor’s lawsuit is the latest in a series of actions from comedians, writers and artists, alleging that tech firms are unfairly using their work.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, shown here in 2016, and a group of religious authors filed a new lawsuit against a group of tech companies, arguing they trained artificial intelligence tools on the authors’ books without their permission. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and a group of religious authors filed a new lawsuit against a group of tech companies, arguing they trained artificial intelligence tools on the authors’ books without permission.
“While using books as part of data sets is not inherently problematic, using pirated books does not fairly compensate authors and publishers for their work,” the plaintiffs, which include Huckabee, and Christian writers and podcasters including Tsh Oxenreider and Lysa TerKeurst, said in the lawsuit. The suit targets Meta, Microsoft and financial data provider Bloomberg L.P.
A spokesperson for Microsoft declined to comment. Spokespeople for Meta, Bloomberg and EleutherAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment., including news stories, Wikipedia and comments on social media sites. OpenAI and other AI companies such as Google and Microsoft do not say specifically what data they use, but AI critics have long suspected that it includesfrom the internet without payment or permission to train their potentially lucrative AI models is only heating up.
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