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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch


A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors' books.

Meta scored a major victory in a copyright lawsuit on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the company did not violate the law when it trained its AI tools on 13 authors' books without permission. In 2023, a high-profile group of authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, sued Meta, alleging that the tech behemoth had infringed on their copyright by training its large language models on their work. Chhabria took pains to stress that his ruling was based on the specific set of facts in this case—leaving the door open for other authors to sue Meta for copyright infringement in the future.

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