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Incident 12946 Report
The New York Times Sued Perplexity for Allegedly Using Copyrighted Content and Generating False Attributions
2025-12-05
On December 5, 2025, The New York Times sued Perplexity, alleging the company used copyrighted Times articles without permission to train its AI system and generated outputs that reproduced Times content or falsely attributed fabricated information to the newspaper. The suit claims the conduct harmed the Times's business and brand. Perplexity denies wrongdoing.
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Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent
2026-03-11
Grammarly's Expert Review feature allegedly used a large language model to generate editing suggestions presented under the names of journalists, authors, and academics without their consent. A federal class action filed by Julia Angwin claimed the feature misappropriated identities for commercial gain and attributed advice the named individuals never gave.
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Meta and OpenAI Accused of Using LibGen’s Pirated Books to Train AI Models
2023-02-28
Court records reveal that Meta employees allegedly discussed pirating books to train LLaMA 3, citing cost and speed concerns with licensing. Internal messages suggest Meta accessed LibGen, a repository of over 7.5 million pirated books, with apparent approval from Mark Zuckerberg. Employees allegedly took steps to obscure the dataset’s origins. OpenAI has also been implicated in using LibGen.
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Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI
2020-10-25
Meta and Bloomberg allegedly used Books3, a dataset containing 191,000 pirated books, to train their AI models, including LLaMA and BloombergGPT, without author consent. Lawsuits from authors such as Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon claim this constitutes copyright infringement. Books3 includes works from major publishers like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. Meta argues its AI outputs are not "substantially similar" to the original books, but legal challenges continue.
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Incident 15041 Report
Nonfiction Book 'The Future of Truth' Reportedly Included AI-Generated and Misattributed Quotations
2026-05-12
Steven Rosenbaum's nonfiction book The Future of Truth reportedly included AI-generated or misattributed quotations after he used ChatGPT and Claude while working on the book. The New York Times reported that more than half a dozen quotations in reviewed sections were synthetic or wrongly attributed, including passages assigned to named writers and scholars. Rosenbaum later acknowledged the errors as accidental and said affected passages would be reviewed for correction.
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Meta and OpenAI Accused of Using LibGen’s Pirated Books to Train AI Models
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The New York Times Reportedly Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Unauthorized AI Training on Its Content
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Incidents Harmed By
- Incident 14075 Reports
Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent
- Incident 9974 Reports
Meta and OpenAI Accused of Using LibGen’s Pirated Books to Train AI Models