A federal judge has ruled in favor of Meta Platforms, dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors who claimed the tech giant used their work without permission to train its artificial intelligence models.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria issued the decision Wednesday, marking the second time in a week that San Francisco’s federal court has thrown out significant copyright claims from authors targeting the fast-growing AI industry.
Chhabria ruled that the 13 authors behind the lawsuit “made the wrong arguments,” leading him to dismiss the case. However, he emphasized that the decision does not amount to a broader legal endorsement of Meta’s AI training practices.
“This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful,” the judge wrote. “It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one.”
