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Chicken Soup for the Soul is suing tech companies OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and Nvidia for copyright infringement. The suit, filed March 17 in the Northern District of California, alleges that hundreds of its copyrighted works were ingested without authorization or compensation to train large language models.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Sues AI Firms for Copyright Infringement

In the complaint, the company makes the novel claim that the entire generative AI industry was built on a foundation of pirated books, first downloaded by one OpenAI employee in 2018. Defendants include OpenAI and seven other tech firms.
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Apple has LLMs left right and centre -- just not a public chatbot. No doubt they've been scraping just as much as any of the rest of them.
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Everywhere and nowhere!

They have announced the "MLX" framework for local LLM deployment, i.e. on device LLMs, and it's integrated into their "LM Studio".

See also machinelearning.apple.com/rese…

and: pcguide.com/ai/apple-ferret-ll…

The point is they have obviously scraped the net for input to train these things.


Apple Ferret LLM Explained

Apple has its own large language model to rival OpenAI's GPT-4. How powerful is it, and how can you use it yourself?
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