Celebrated writers sue Meta over copyright infringement in AI training

Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang, Pulitzer Prize-recipient Michael Chabon, and authors Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder and Ayelet Waldman filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta in San Francisco for copying and ingesting their work for the AI project.

According to the plaintiffs, Meta’s language model used to train LLaMA “provides information about the copyrighted work, including the title of the work, the ISBN or copyright registration number, the name of the author and the year of publication.” The lawsuit adds that the plaintiffs “have been and remain the holders of the exclusive rights under the Copyright Act of 1976 to reproduce, distribute, display, or license the reproduction, distribution and/or display of the works identified.”

As AI technology develops, more lawsuits are likely to come as new questions arise. Recently, Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit against a TikTok creator after it generated an AI song that was made to sound like Drake and The Weeknd.

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