‘Chicken Soup’ Publisher Adds to Copyright Suits of AI Giants

March 19, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

The publisher of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” franchise sued the bulk of the AI industry in a second copyright suit from those who opted out of a $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic PBC.

The AI giants infringe by training their models on pirated copies of the series’ hundreds of books, Chicken Soup for the Soul LLC said in a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. In addition to Anthropic, the suit names OpenAI Inc., Google LLC, Meta Platforms Inc., Apple Inc., X.AI Inc., Perplexity AI Inc., and NVIDIA ...

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