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The legal action accuses the AI firms of widespread copyright infringement, alleging that their copyrighted works were used without permission to train generative AI models.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims that the AI companies illegally ingested vast quantities of written material, including books, articles, and other copyrighted content, to develop their powerful language models. This unauthorized use, the authors argue, constitutes a direct violation of their intellectual property rights and undermines their ability to control and profit from their creations.<\/p>\n<p>This latest legal challenge joins a growing wave of lawsuits from authors, artists, and news organizations seeking to protect their works from being exploited by AI technologies. 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