Sarah Silverman Lawyers Get Judge’s Harsh Rebuke in Meta AI Case

The legal team bringing a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of training its AI model on copyrighted books of authors including comedian Sarah Silverman is failing to adequately represent its clients, a San Francisco federal judge said at a Friday hearing.

“You and your team have barely been litigating the case, that’s obvious,” Judge Vince Chhabria told the authors’ attorney Joseph Saveri of the Saveri Law Firm LLP.

“I will not certify a class represented by this legal team,” Chhabria said at the virtual case management hearing. “There is no way that I would find adequacy of representation ...