ADOBE HIT WITH PROPOSED CLASS-ACTION, ACCUSED OF MISUSING AUTHORS' WORK IN AI TRAINING

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Adobe faces a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books to train its SlimLM language model for mobile document assistance. The lawsuit claims Adobe's training relied on the SlimPajama dataset, which contains the controversial Books3 collection of 191,000 pirated books that have sparked multiple legal battles against tech companies. This case joins growing litigation over AI firms allegedly training models on copyrighted materials without author consent or compensation, following similar lawsuits against Apple, Salesforce, and Anthropic.