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Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California · Federal district courts · CA · · 788 F. Supp. 3d 1026 · No. 3:23-cv-03417-VC · order
The Northern District of California grants Meta partial summary judgment on fair use for copying authors’ books to train Llama. The order stresses generative AI’s potential market harms while finding the plaintiffs’ record inadequate to defeat fair use in this case.
- Disposition
- The court denied plaintiffs’ partial-summary-judgment motion and granted Meta’s cross-motion on fair use.
What the court wrote
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Companies are presently racing to develop generative artificial intelligence models— software products that are capable of generating text, images, videos, or sound based on materials they’ve previously been “trained” on. Because the performance of a generative AI model depends on the amount and quality of data it absorbs as part of its training, companies have been unable to resist the temptation to feed copyright-protected materials into their models—without getting permission from the copyright holders or paying them for the right to use their works for this purpose. This case presents the question whether such conduct is illegal.
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