B.C. author alleges tech giants used copyrighted Canadian work to train AI, leads class action lawsuit
A best-selling Vancouver author has launched a class-action lawsuit against NVIDIA, Meta and two other tech giants. J.B. MacKinnon claims that books he and other Canadian authors wrote were illegally used to train artificial intelligence models. CBC's Karin Larsen has been following this case and she spoke to host Baneet Braich about it earlier today.