Mark Zuckerberg has a new enemy: academics denounce the AI of Meta who plunder works
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For several weeks, the authors have denounced data theft by AI. In a legal document which was presented to the Federal Court of the Northern District of California, division of San Francisco, the academics qualify the argument of “Fair Use” (equitable use) of Meta as “An amazing demand for more extensive legal privileges than those ever granted to human authors”.
“The use of protected works to cause generative models is not 'transformative', because using these works for this purpose is not fundamentally different to use them to educate human authors, which constitutes one of the main original purposes of all the works of the complainants”specifies the document. “This use for training is also not 'transformative' because its objective is to allow the creation of works that compete with the works copied on the same markets – a purpose which, when it is prosecuted by a profit company like Meta, also makes this use undeniably 'commercial'.”
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), a global professional who represents academic and professional publishers, also submitted a document in support to the authors. The Copyright Alliance, a non -profit organization that defends artists in the fields subject to copyright, but also the association of American publishers, did the same.
With Techcruncha spokesperson for Meta reported that other support documents have been filed by a group of law teachers and by the Electronic Frontier Foundation who, on the other hand, supports the legal position of the company who is also accused of helping China.
In this judicial case, several authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates accuse Meta of looting of their digital works Without authorization to train its AI. Mark Zuckerberg's company refutes these accusations and talks about the “Fair Use”even contesting the quality to act of the complainants.
Judge Vince Chhabria authorized the continuation of the procedure by partially rejecting Meta's inadmissibility. In his decision, the man of justice considers that the allegation of copyright violation constitutes “Obviously, sufficient concrete damage to establish the quality to act” and that the authors have “Adequately alleged that Meta intentionally deleted copyright management information to hide the copyright violation”.
