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Judge Rules AI Training on Copyrighted Books as Fair Use, Faults Pirated Library
- On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled in San Francisco that Meta prevailed against 13 authors accusing it of copyright infringement involving its AI model Llama.
- In 2023, a group of writers filed a lawsuit against Meta, accusing the company of using unauthorized copies of their books to train the AI model Llama, a key issue in ongoing disputes over copyright and AI training data.
- Judge Chhabria determined that Meta’s use of the copyrighted works was transformative and fell under fair use, emphasizing that the plaintiffs did not provide sufficient proof that Meta’s AI training caused harm to the market or diluted the value of the original books.
- Chhabria emphasized that the ruling is limited to the 13 plaintiffs involved and does not legalize all uses of copyrighted material for AI training, while a Meta representative expressed gratitude for the court's ruling.
- The ruling and a similar earlier one favoring Anthropic highlight legal complexity in AI training, leaving room for future lawsuits as courts balance transformative use against potential market harm.
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Meta wins copyright lawsuit
A US judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the tech giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled that Meta's use of the works to train its AI model was "transformative" enough to constitute "fair use" under copyright law, in the second such courtroom triumph for AI firms this week. However, i…
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