Adobe was sued for using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence tools. The author of the US class action lawsuit, writer Elizabeth Lyon, said the company inappropriately used books, including her own, to train its AI models to respond to human requests.
The lawsuit is the first of its kind against Adobe and another in a wave of U.S. lawsuits filed by copyright holders against tech companies accused of using copyrighted content to train AI.
Adobe representatives made no comment on the matter. Lyon and his lawyer also had no comment.
Lyon, which specializes in marketing romance novels, said in the complaint that Adobe used pirated copies of its books and those of other authors to train its SlimLM model, which helps users with document-related tasks on mobile devices.
The class action involves all copyright owners whose works Adobe allegedly misused. She is seeking an unspecified amount in damages.
Dozens of authors have sued other AI-focused tech companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, for copyright infringement. Anthropic settled one of the class-action lawsuits in August for $1.5 billion, the largest-ever settlement in a copyright case.
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