Apple’s reputation as the world’s most privacy-centric company is being put to the test, as two neuroscience authors have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming it used pirated versions of their books to train Apple Intelligence. For a company built on trust and ethics, the accusation damages its reputation, especially when the company is preparing to take artificial intelligence seriously .

The lawsuit accusing Apple of using pirated books to train Apple Intelligence challenges its long-standing privacy-first reputation

According to the lawsuit , Apple allegedly relied on Books3, a dataset within The Pile, which is a massive collection of thousands of pirated works from shadow libraries. Among those works were the authors’ bestsellers by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, whi

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