{"id":35356,"date":"2025-12-23T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/12\/23\/new-york-times-reporter-sues-google-xai-openai-over-chatbot-training\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:09:00","slug":"new-york-times-reporter-sues-google-xai-openai-over-chatbot-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/12\/23\/new-york-times-reporter-sues-google-xai-openai-over-chatbot-training\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems.<br \/>New York Times reporter and &#8220;Bad Blood&#8221; author John Carreyrou filed the lawsuit in California federal court with five other writers, accusing the AI companies of pirating their books and feeding them into the large language models (LLMs) that power the companies&#8217; chatbots.<br \/>The lawsuit is one of several copyright cases brought by authors and other copyright owners against tech companies over the use of their work in AI training. 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