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Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward

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A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit.

In Kadrey vs. Meta, authors — including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates — have alleged that Meta has violated their intellectual property rights by using their books to train its Llama AI models and that the company removed the copyright information from their books to hide the alleged infringement.

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