Core Points - A collective lawsuit has been filed against Apple by two academic authors from the State University of New York, alleging unauthorized use of their copyrighted works in training the Apple Intelligence AI system [1] - The plaintiffs claim that Apple utilized content from their books "Champions of Illusion" and "Sleights of Mind" without permission, which were included in the Books3 database [1] - Apple acknowledged in April 2024 that it used a dataset called The Pile for training the OpenELM language model, which contained the Books3 database at that time [1] - Although the Books3 database was removed in October 2023 due to copyright disputes, the plaintiffs argue that Apple had already completed the copying and training of their works [1]