Jenny Dandy

🚨BREAKING: authors @rebeccamakkai & @JasonReynolds83 file an AI copyright lawsuit against MosaicML and Databricks. Important quotes: "MosaicML has admitted training its MPT-7B model on a copy of the “RedPajama—Books” dataset, which in turn is a copy of the Books3 dataset. Therefore, MosaicML necessarily trained its MPT-7B model on a copy of Books3. Certain books written by Plaintiffs and Class members are part of Books3—including the Infringed Works—and thus MosaicML necessarily trained MPT-7B on one or more copies of the Infringed Works, thereby directly infringing the copyrights of the Plaintiffs and Class members." (page 7) - "On information and belief, MosaicML made further copies of the Books3 dataset or subsets thereof to train other models in the MPT family. For instance, MosaicML released a model called MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+ (“the StoryWriter model”), a variant of MPT-7B that MosaicML admits was further trained on “a filtered fiction subset of the [B]ooks3 dataset”.7 The stated purpose of the StoryWriter model is “to read and write stories”—or, put another way, to generate works that directly compete with works in the training dataset." (page 8) - "MosaicML repeatedly copied the Infringed Works without Plaintiffs’ permission. MosaicML made these copies of the Infringed Works in violation of Plaintiffs’ exclusive rights under the Copyright Act. Plaintiffs and Class members have been injured by MosaicML’s acts of direct copyright infringement. Plaintiffs and Class members are entitled to statutory damages, actual damages, restitution of profits, and other remedies provided by law." (page 9) ➡️Link to the lawsuit below. ➡️Subscribe to my newsletter and stay up to date with the latest AI lawsuits (link below)