Another ruling in favor of US AI companies in copyright battle

On June 25, a US federal judge ruled in favor of Meta in a lawsuit related to the copyright of books used to train the corporation's artificial intelligence (AI) system.

This is the second legal victory this week for AI companies over the use of copyrighted books.

In the ruling, Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the authors had not presented enough evidence that Meta's AI would dilute the market for their work, a factor that determines a violation of US copyright law.

The ruling found that Meta's "transformational" use of the works to train its AI models was sufficient to constitute "fair use" under copyright law. However, the document also made clear that the ruling did not support the argument that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models was legal.

In response to the ruling, the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, which represents the authors, expressed its disagreement. Meanwhile, Meta welcomed the ruling, calling it an “important legal framework” for building “transformative” AI technology.

Earlier, on June 23, another federal judge in San Francisco issued a similar ruling, saying that Anthropic's AI training program was a "fair use" of copyrighted materials.

To train large language models for generative AI, companies need massive amounts of data. Many authors of copyrighted material have sued AI companies for using their data without permission or without paying.

However, AI companies argue that their systems are simply making “fair use” of copyrighted material by studying it to learn how to create new and transformative content.

These companies also argue that being forced to pay copyright owners would hinder the thriving AI industry./.

(Vietnam+)

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