Meta was recently sued for copyright infringement for training its “AI” (LLM) Llama with copyrighted works that it had expressed interest in licensing, but chose not to. The Judge ruled in favor of trillion-dollar company Meta and against book authors, citing Fair Use. This is particularly interesting to us given the recent Bloomberg DMCA aggression against GamersNexus and our own experiences with Fair Use, so we dug into it to learn more.
This is great news for us! If you ever get pulled up for pirating things, just say you’re using them to train an LLM and it’s legal!
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This definitely will not work unless it does. But it probably won’t.)