{"id":143771,"date":"2026-02-10T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/10\/class-suit-accuses-adobe-of-using-pirated-books-to-train-ai-models\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:27:34","slug":"class-suit-accuses-adobe-of-using-pirated-books-to-train-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/10\/class-suit-accuses-adobe-of-using-pirated-books-to-train-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Suit Accuses Adobe of Using Pirated Books to Train AI Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

A class action accuses Adobe of secretly pulling hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books\u2014including titles scraped from pirate \u201cshadow libraries \u2014to train its new SlimLM small language models, in what plaintiffs call mass, willful infringement that contradicts Adobe’s public claims of \u201cethical AI development.
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A class action accuses Adobe of secretly pulling hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books\u2014including titles scraped from pirate \u201cshadow libraries \u2014to train its new SlimLM small language models, in what plaintiffs call mass, willful infringement that contradicts Adobe’s public claims of \u201cethical AI development.
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A class action accuses Adobe of secretly pulling hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books\u2014including titles scraped from pirate \u201cshadow libraries \u2014to train its new SlimLM small language models, in what plaintiffs call mass, willful infringement that contradicts Adobe’s public claims of \u201cethical AI development. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A class action accuses Adobe of secretly pulling hundreds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/legal-news-RJCau8.jpg?fit=620%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}