A federal judge has allowed an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the case. In Kadrey vs. Meta, the authors (Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates) allege that Meta violated their intellectual property rights by using their literature to train its Llama AI models, further claiming that Meta removed copyright information to obscure these infringements. Meta maintains that its training methods are protected under fair use and asserts that the authors do not possess the standing to file a lawsuit. During a prior court appearance, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria expressed hesitance to dismiss the case, despite criticizing the authors’ legal team’s language as overly excessive.
In his latest ruling, Chhabria noted that allegations of copyright infringement establish a valid injury for standing and that the authors have convincingly claimed that Meta deliberately disposed of copyright information to conceal its violations. He remarked that these allegations suggest a reasonable assumption that Meta intended to prevent the Llama AI from revealing copyright details. However, he dismissed some claims involving the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, saying that the authors did not allege that Meta accessed their devices or servers, but rather that Meta took the authors’ literary data in book form.
The ongoing litigation demonstrates Meta’s stance on copyright, with court filings revealing that Mark Zuckerberg authorized the Llama team to utilize copyrighted materials for training, while other employees deliberated on the ramifications of using such content for AI enhancement.
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