Authors Sue Adobe Over Alleged Pirated Book Use in AI
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A proposed class-action lawsuit claims Adobe used pirated versions of books to train its SlimLM AI, part of the Firefly ecosystem.
Plaintiff Elizabeth Lyon alleges her works were included in SlimPajama-627B, derived from the RedPajama/Books3 dataset.
Adobe’s SlimLM is designed for mobile document assistance tasks, but the legal spotlight is on the dataset’s copyright compliance.
The case adds to a string of AI lawsuits, including against Apple, Salesforce, and Anthropic, showing copyright concerns are a major challenge for AI companies.
The outcome could have wide implications for how AI models are trained on literary works.