New Delhi, Sept. 7 -- Apple has been sued by two authors for illegally using their copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The lawsuit filed by Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson is among the burgeoning number of legal cases aimed at protecting intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence.

The authors argue that Apple used its scraper called Applebot to reach shadow libraries that contained copyrighted books. They argue that Apple also used this stolen content to create AI models that power its Apple Intelligence technology.

Notably, Apple Intelligence is the term that Apple uses for its AI tools that are part of its OS across iPhones, MacBook, iPad, and others.

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