More than 100 fed-up authors are demanding over $75 million from San Francisco-based AI behemoth Anthropic, which they claim stole their books to train its systems.

The lawsuit filed in Northern California District Court on June 17 accused Anthropic, which partners with major companies like Microsoft and Amazon, brazenly used more than 500 pirated books — including Oprah-endorsed New York Times bestseller “Get Good with Money” by Tiffany Aliche and the international bestseller “Like Water for Chocolate” by Mexican author Laura Esquivel — to feed its AI.

The company allegedly infringed the copyright of at least 100 authors, including Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Academy Award-nominated JFK screenwriter Zachary Sklar and Newbery Medal winner Donna Barba Higuera.

The scorned writers are demanding $150,000 per pirated piece, according to the filing.

The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic exploited a file-sharing program called BitTorrent to access illegal websites Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to download millions of unauthorized copies of books.

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