A U.S. judge ruled in favor of Meta Platforms Inc. in an AI copyright lawsuit brought by 13 authors who claimed the social media firm used their work without permission for training its AI systems.
The lawsuit alleged Meta trained its AI models on the authors' copyrighted works available in online libraries, leading to accusations of plagiarism and harming the book market.
Federal Judge Vince Chhabria found that the plaintiffs did not provide sufficient evidence that Meta's practices caused significant market harm, leading to ruling in favor of Meta.
The judge clarified that while this ruling only applies to the 13 authors in the case, it doesn't establish that Meta's use of copyrighted materials for training AI models is always lawful.