Well, it was bound to happen. The 113th U.S. copyright lawsuit against an AI company now is going after the AI research scientists allegedly involved in the training of AI models.
The only other one, Concord Music v. Anthropic II, at least was limited to co-founders of the company Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann. This one sues employees who were AI research scientists at Meta.
Book authors Jeff Hobbs and A. Douglas Stone just filed the complaint in Hobbs v. Meta naming as defendants not only Meta and Mark Zuckerberg — like the Elsevier v. Meta lawsuit did — but also Joelle Pineau who served as Meta’s Vice President of AI Research and led Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab and Guillaume Lample, a former Meta research scientist.
Pineau is now the chief A.I. Officer of Cohere and a Professor at the School of Computer Science at McGill University.
Lample is a co-founder of the French AI company Mistral AI.
Is it now open season on all AI researchers who used datasets with copyrighted materials?
This lawsuit seems aggressive in naming AI research scientists. But it was bound to happen.
The lawsuit against Stanford University for the creation and sharing of the important ImageNet dataset — perhaps the most important dataset in the history of AI research created by Professor Fei-Fei Li, who just received the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering — was a canary in the copyright coal mine.
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