Artificial Intelligence: Meta Wins Lawsuit, Training Does Not Violate Privacy

A U.S. federal judge has awarded a victory to Facebook parent company Meta Platforms, dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their work to “train” its artificial intelligence technology.

The ruling was the second in a week by a federal court in San Francisco to dismiss major copyright claims by book authors against the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry. However, the judge also said the ruling was limited to the authors in question and did not mean Meta’s use of copyrighted materials was lawful.