Judge Skeptical of Meta’s Claims It Did Not Violate Copyright Law in AI Lawsuit

The lawsuit was filed by authors who claim Meta used their work to train its large language model without informing them.
Judge Skeptical of Meta’s Claims It Did Not Violate Copyright Law in AI Lawsuit
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A federal judge in San Francisco on April 1 expressed skepticism over social media giant Meta’s argument that it did not violate copyright law when it used the works of 13 authors to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models without their permission.

District Judge Vince Chhabria in California questioned lawyers for both parties over Meta’s request for a ruling that it made “fair use” of books by Junot Diaz, comedian Sarah Silverman, and others to train its large language model known as Llama.

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