A federal judge dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta Platforms brought by authors, including Sarah Silverman. The ruling suggests the authors made weak arguments, though it raises the broader issue of AI companies potentially infringing copyright by using written works for AI training without permission.

Chhabria, in his Meta ruling, criticized Alsup’s reasoning on the Anthropic case, arguing that “Alsup focused heavily on the transformative nature of generative AI while brushing aside concerns about the harm it can inflict on the market for the works it gets trained on.”