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Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use”
Judge downplayed Meta’s “messed up” torrenting in lawsuit over AI training.
At the hearing that followed after both sides requested summary judgment, however, Judge Vince Chhabria pushed back on Meta attorneys arguing that the company's Llama AI models posed no threat to authors in their markets, Reuters reported. Declaring, "I just don't understand how that can be fair use," the shrewd judge apparently stoked little response from Meta's attorney, Kannon Shanmugam, apart from a suggestion that any alleged threat to authors' livelihoods was "just speculation," Wired reported. But if authors can prove fears of market harms are real, Meta might struggle to win over Chhabria, and that could set a precedent impacting copyright cases challenging AI training on other kinds of content.
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