Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all. Databricks’ motion to dismiss the case was denied last week by Judge Charles Breyer in U.S. District Court in Northern California, who said the plaintiffs, a group of writers that includes bestsellers and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, had grounds to continue their suit against the data analytics platform. Databricks LLM, called DBRX, was cobbled together with parts from MosaicLM, which Databricks acquired in 2023. Early versions of that model used a database called RedPajama – which contained Book3 and has since been pulled from Hugging Face for copyright infringement. Databricks is essentially arguing that the authors can't prove that DBRX was trained with the Book3 data, and has testified to that effect. Databricks closed its acquisition of MosaicLM in July 2023.…