Adobe faces class action lawsuit after allegedly misusing authors work in AI training

• Adobe accused of using pirated books to train SlimLM
• The company asserts it used SlimPajama-627B – an open-source Cerebras dataset
• The plaintiff claims sufficient financial resources to "vigorously" pursue this case

Adobe is set to face an AI copyright lawsuit in the US, with a class-action case alleging that the company trained its AI models on pirated books without permission.

Oregon author Elizabeth Lyon filed the case, claiming that the tech giant had trained its AI models not only on her books, but the work of others, too.

The lawsuit focuses specifically on Adobe's SlimLM small language models which are used for document assistance tasks on mobile devices.

Adobe faces AI training data class action lawsuit

The company has denied the ...