Adobe’s AI faces a copyright reality check

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00:00Adobe's AI faces a copyright reality check.

00:04Adobe has gone all in on AI, sprinkling generative on everything and rolling out Firefly to prove it can also do the future.

00:12But this week, Adobe's AI ambitions wandered into familiar legal quicksand,

00:17a class action filed for Oregon author Elizabeth Lyon,

00:21alleging Adobe used unauthorized copies of her books to train Slim LM.

00:25According to the complaint, Adobe's AI education may have involved a little too much borrowed reading material.

00:32Adobe describes Slim LM as a small language model for document assistance tasks on mobile devices.

00:38Adobe says the model was trained using Slim Pajama 627B,

00:42an open-source dataset released by Cerebras in mid-2023.

00:46In Lawsuit's footnotes, where things get spicy, Lyon's lawyers say Slim Pajama is a remix of Red Pajama,

00:52which allegedly includes Books 3, a collection of 191,000 books haunting AI companies like a copyright poltergeist.

01:00According to the lawsuit, Slim Pajama contains derivative copies of Books 3 and therefore copyrighted works, including Lyon's.

01:08Books 3 has become the you again of AI litigation.

01:11It's popped up in lawsuits against Apple over its Apple intelligence platform

01:15and against Salesforce for allegedly training AI systems on copyrighted material without permission, credit, or compensation.

01:23At this point, if your dataset includes Books 3, a lawyer may already be drafting a complaint.

01:28Training AI requires enormous datasets, and those datasets sometimes wander into legally questionable territory.

01:35Just last year, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors for using pirated works to train its chatbot,

01:43a settlement seen as a warning shot.

01:45For Adobe, it's a reminder that AI may be fast and creative,

01:49but copyright law still reads everything very, very carefully.

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