Chicken Soup for the Soul Sues OpenAI and Seven AI Firms Over 'Single Act' Copyright Theory

Chicken Soup for the Soul has filed a copyright lawsuit in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and Nvidia, alleging that the entire generative AI industry was built on a foundation of pirated books traced to a single 2018 LibGen download by an OpenAI employee. Over 1,000 authors representing more than 5,000 works have joined the action.