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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and agency

Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors

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A Meta spokesperson called fair use a ‘vital legal framework’ for building ‘transformative’ AI technology. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has won the backing of a judge in a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors, in the second legal victory for the US artificial intelligence industry this week.

The writers, who included Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, had argued that the Facebook owner had breached copyright law by using their books without permission to train its AI system.

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