John Carrero, a New York Times journalist and author of the book 'Bad Blood,' has filed a lawsuit in California federal court against Google, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Elon Musk's X-AI, and Perplexity.

They have filed a lawsuit alleging that their copyrighted books were used without permission. 

The complaint claims that the companies have 'pirated' (stolen) their books and used them in the Large Language Model (LLM), on which chatbots operate. 

Various media organizations have previously filed lawsuits against AI. However, this is the first time that Elon Musk's X-AI has been named as a defendant in this case. There was no immediate response from the defendant companies.

Earlier, Anthropic had agreed to pay a group of authors $1.5 billion in the first major settlement over allegations of copyright infringement in AI training. 

However, the new lawsuit states that under that agreement, authors will receive only 2 percent of the maximum $150,000 set by the Copyright Act for each infringed work. The lawsuit was filed by lawyers from the Friedman Normand Friedland law firm.