The U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled against authors like Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, concluding they did not effectively demonstrate market harm from Meta's use of their works to train generative AI. The authors alleged that Meta avoided sharing its training dataset to circumvent copyright issues. Judge Vince Chhabria emphasized that while copying for AI training generally infringes copyright, the plaintiffs did not adequately argue market dilution and thus could not effectively counter Meta's claims of lack of harm.
Where a defendant introduces evidence of a lack of market harm, 'and the plaintiff fails to introduce empirical evidence countering such a showing, the fourth factor should be weighed in the defendant's favor,' - Judge Vince Chhabria
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