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Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights
A judge rejected authors' claim that Meta infringed their copyrights to train its Llama language model.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a claim brought by 13 authors, including Sarah Silverman and Junot Díaz, that Meta violated their copyrights by training its AI model on their books. Judge Vincent Chhabria concluded that Meta had engaged in “fair use” when it used a dataset of nearly 200,000 books — including the plaintiffs’ works — to train its Llama language model. “The court ruled that AI companies that ‘feed copyright-protected works into their models without getting permission from the copyright holders or paying for them’ are generally violating the law,” said a spokesperson for the firm.
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