More than 100 authors who opted out of the earlier $1.5 billion class settlement sued Anthropic in federal court in Northern California on June 17, seeking over $75 million. The complaint alleges the company used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its AI and, unlike the earlier case, redistributed them; the authors want $150,000 per work.
Who did it: HUMAN Australian Broadcasting Corporation
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation found the donation-seeking Lily Jay Foundation's videos mix real clips with AI fakes, including an AI-generated Lily Jay opening a Ugandan orphanage that registrars initially said was not registered. A press release on her purported humanitarian award came from a PR firm listing her as co-founder, and its photos carry AI watermarks, according to ABC; the foundation did not respond.
