NYT Reporter Sues Google, OpenAI, xAI And Others Over Copyright Use In LLM Chatbot Training

New York Times reporter John Carreyrou, joined by five writers, has filed a copyright lawsuit in a California federal court against Google, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Perplexity, and xAI.

The authors allege that their copyrighted books were used without consent to train large language models powering chatbots.

They have chosen not to pursue the matter as a class action, arguing that individual copyright claims tend to lose value in collective settlements.

The suit is notable for being the first to name Elon Musk’s xAI as a defendant, adding to the growing wave of litigation challenging the use of copyrighted works in AI training.