Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman brought a case against Meta arguing that its AI systems are an infringement that is only made possible by information extracted from copyrighted material.
“This is nonsensical,” the U.S. District Judge wrote in the order. “There is no way to understand the LLaMA models themselves as a recasting or adaptation of any of the plaintiffs’ books.”
This ruling, together with a federal judge ruling against artists who argued that AI tools using the billions of images on the internet as training material constitute copyright infringement, creates a major precedent for our industry. Without being able to produce evidence of AI-created material being identical to copyrighted work, courts seem to be seeing the cases as insufficient.
What has yet to be decided is the impact this has on AI generated content being used commercially.
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