Salesforce Sued By Authors Over AI Software (reuters.com)
(Friday October 17, 2025 @05:20PM (msmash)
from the join-the-queue dept.)
- Reference: 0179816764
- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/17/1944222/salesforce-sued-by-authors-over-ai-software
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/salesforce-sued-by-authors-over-artificial-intelligence-software-2025-10-16/
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Cloud-computing firm Salesforce was [1]hit with a proposed class action lawsuit by two authors who alleged the company used thousands of books without permission to train its AI software. Novelists Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore said in the complaint that Salesforce infringed copyrights by using their work to train its xGen AI models to process language.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/salesforce-sued-by-authors-over-artificial-intelligence-software-2025-10-16/
> Cloud-computing firm Salesforce was [1]hit with a proposed class action lawsuit by two authors who alleged the company used thousands of books without permission to train its AI software. Novelists Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore said in the complaint that Salesforce infringed copyrights by using their work to train its xGen AI models to process language.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/salesforce-sued-by-authors-over-artificial-intelligence-software-2025-10-16/
You read my book... (Score:2)
I'm suing you!
(Previous lawsuits have found training on copyrighted materiel without prior permission or specific payment to be legal. The courts have found that materiel downloaded from pirate sources was illegally obtained and any systems trained on the illegally obtained materiel must be deleted.)