News Summary

• Hachette asked a U.S. federal court for permission to intervene in a proposed class action lawsuit against Google.
• Along with Cengage, an education technology provider, the publisher claims the tech giant copied content from its textbooks.
• Google argues that training LLMs on vast text-based datasets is a transformative process which analyzes patterns in language, rather than reproducing the original works.
• “We know these LLMs basically stole our authors’ work,” says CEO David Shelley.