Meta’s use of books to train AI protected by fair use, Bloomberg Law reports

A U.S. judge has ruled that Meta‘s use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs’ poor arguments, Isaiah Poritz of Bloomberg Law reports. “This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful,” San Francisco federal Judge Vince Chhabria said.