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10 November 2023CopyrightMarisa Woutersen

Meta secures partial dismissal of Silverman AI suit

A federal judge is set to partially dismiss copyright lawsuit brought forward by authors | Allegations of copyright infringement related to its language model | Judge argues AI output is not a copy of the authors' works.

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