A federal judge in San Francisco on April 1 expressed skepticism over social media giant Meta’s argument that it did not violate copyright law when it used the works of 13 authors to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models without their permission.
District Judge Vince Chhabria in California questioned lawyers for both parties over Meta’s request for a ruling that it made “fair use” of books by Junot Diaz, comedian Sarah Silverman, and others to train its large language model known as Llama.
Chhabria said he did not think this was the case.
“You have companies using copyright-protected material to create a product that is capable of producing an infinite number of competing products,” Chhabria told Meta’s attorneys….