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Oct 16 (Reuters) – Cloud-computing firm Salesforce (CRM.N), opens new tab was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit by two authors who alleged the company used thousands of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence software. Novelists Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore said in the complaint, opens new tab filed on Wednesday that Salesforce infringed copyrights by using their work to train its xGen AI models to process language. Make sense of the latest ESG trends affecting companies and governments with the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter. Sign up here. A Salesforce spokesperson declined to comment on the lawsuit on Thursday. “It’s important that companies…