'Chicken Soup' Publisher Says AI Cos. Stole Books' Soul

By Rae Ann Varona ( March 18, 2026, 9:54 PM EDT) -- The publisher of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books has accused Google, OpenAI and other Big Tech companies in California federal court of mass copyright infringement, saying the companies downloaded pirated copies of its first-person narrative books so that their artificial intelligence systems could replicate an "authentic human voice."...

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