Internet piracy is illegal unless you’re Big Tech… In this video, we dig into Apple’s latest AI lawsuit, the Books3 dataset, and why copyright law seems to apply very differently depending on who is doing the downloading.
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This all began when authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a lawsuit against Apple in 2025, alleging they trained their AI models on Books3, a collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books. But despite pushback from Apple, the claim is actually backed up by their own technical papers, and mirrors earlier lawsuits aimed at other AI developers accused of using the very same dataset without permission or compensation.
The outcome of this lawsuit isn’t just about Apple, but shines a light on a wider pattern that rewards speed and scale over consent, with legal consequences just treated as a problem for the future. Whilst the courts are trying to try and catch up, the outcome of this case could determine how AI is built, what data is allowed and who will get paid when creative works become machine input.
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