Six authors take on big AI firms over copyright

Technology Dec 24, 2025

Six authors—including Theranos whistleblower and "Bad Blood" author John Carreyrou—are suing Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, xAI (Elon Musk's AI startup), Google, and Perplexity.
They claim these companies used their books to train AI models without asking or paying.

Why they're skipping the class action and what's at stake

Instead of joining a recent $1.5 billion class action settlement (which would've paid each author about $3,000), these writers want their own day in court—and potentially bigger damages.
They argue past deals "serve defendants, not creators."
The outcome could set new rules for how AI companies use copyrighted work in the future.