A federal judge dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta Platforms by a group of authors, including notable figures like Sarah Silverman. Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that the authors made incorrect arguments regarding Meta's use of their works for AI training. While dismissing the case, he suggested that Meta's practices around copyright could still be illegal and encouraged others to pursue legal action if argued correctly. The ruling underlines the complexities surrounding copyright in the rapidly advancing AI sector.
This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful, but rather that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments.
Judge Chhabria indicated that Meta and other AI companies have turned into serial copyright infringers as they train their AI on works created by humans.
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