A federal judge ruled in favor of Meta in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by 13 authors, including Sarah Silverman. The judge determined Meta's use of copyrighted books to train its AI models constituted fair use, a decision echoing a similar ruling for Anthropic. However, the judge emphasized this ruling's limited scope, noting that future cases with stronger evidence of market harm might yield different results. Other lawsuits against tech companies regarding AI training on copyrighted material, including cases involving news articles and films, remain ongoing.

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