Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights

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 decision follows a similar ruling issued on Monday in a case against Anthropic over its language model, Claude.

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“We appreciate today’s decision from the Court,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. “Open-source AI models are powering

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