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Technology

Oct. 20, 2025

Authors sue Salesforce, claim AI trained with pirated books

Authors sued Salesforce, alleging its AI model XGen was trained on pirated books. The putative class action, led by attorney Joseph Saveri, adds to mounting copyright battles against AI companies.

Authors sue Salesforce, claim AI trained with pirated books
Joseph Saveri of Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP

An artificial intelligence product is again in the crosshairs of authors who say that copyright infringement is the illicit secret that enables the development of leading commercial AI systems.

Writers accused the cloud-computing software company Salesforce Inc. of having pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language model product, known as XGen, according to a putative class action filed in federal court in San Francisco.

The complaint, b...

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