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Meta wins AI copyright case filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors
Federal Judge Vince Chhabria has ruled in favor of Meta over the 13 book authors who sued the company for training its large language model on their published work without obtaining consent.
Federal Judge Vince Chhabria has ruled in favor of Meta over the 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, who sued the company for training its large language model on their published work without obtaining consent. In his ruling(PDF), Chhabria admitted that in most cases, it is illegal to feed copyright-protected materials into their large language models without getting permission or paying the copyright owners for the right to use their creations. Despite his ruling, Chhabria clarified that his decision is limited: It only affects the 13 authors in the lawsuit and "does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful."
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