Authors Slam Meta’s Fair Use Bid in AI Training Copyright Suit

Authors castigated Meta Platforms Inc.'s fair use defense against their AI copyright lawsuit as a false claim that programmers must be allowed to infringe copyrighted works at will with impunity.

Plaintiffs including authors Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman argued Meta committed mass piracy by pilfering several pirated books websites to train its large language models, which they say infringed as a matter of law. The Monday filing in the US District Court for the Northern District of California—both a reply in support of its own summary judgment bid and opposition to Meta’s partial summary judgment bid—said all four fair ...