Fox Business Correspondent Madison Alworth will test Metaoakley Smart Glasses, which include photos, videos and near-real-time language translations for “Making Money.”
This week, two artificial intelligence development companies won in court against the book’s author’s copyright lawsuit.
Two federal judges in San Francisco ruled that humanity and Meta could use the book without permission to train artificial intelligence systems.
On Wednesday, US District Judge Vince Chhabria was on his side with the Meta platform and informed the author that he did not provide sufficient evidence that Meta’s AI would dilute the market to be sufficient for copyright infringement cases.
“The ruling does not represent the proposition that Meta uses copyrighted material to train language models,” Chhabria said, according to Reuters. “It only represents the proposition that these plaintiffs had made the wrong argument and were unable to develop a record in favor of the right thing.”
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Meta logos will be seen at the food stalls at the World Audiovisual & Entertainment Summit (Waves) event held in Mumbai on May 2, 2025. (Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/Lightrocket/Getty Images)
The human ruling fell on Monday. US District Judge William Alsp trained its extensive language model by citing the book “Fair Use” by authors Andrea Burtz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson.
However, ALSUP is partly ally of the author, saying that humanity has copied and stored more than 7 million pirated books in the “Central Library,” infringed the author’s copyright and did not use it fairly. The judge ordered a trial in December to determine how much humanity is in the infringement.
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(L/R) Humanity CEO Dario Amodei, Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger, and Communications Director Sasha De Marigny will hold a press conference at the first Humanity Developer Conference held in San Francisco, California on May 22, 2025. (Julie Jamott / AFP / Getty Images)
Fair use is an important legal defense for high-tech companies, and the Allsup decision is the first decision to address it in the context of generating AI.
AI companies argue that if systems are forced to use copyrighted materials fairly to create new, transformative content and pay copyright owners for their work, they could attack booming AI industries.
People will visit the 2025 Book Fair held in Lisbon, Portugal on June 10th, 2025. (Nuno Cruz/Nurphoto/Getty Images)
Humanity and other prominent AI companies, including the Openai and Meta platforms, have been accused of downloading millions of pirated copies of books to train their systems.
According to US copyright law, intentional copyright infringement can justify statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work.
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Copyright holders say AI companies are illegally copying their work and generating competing content that threatens their livelihoods.
Chhabria expressed sympathy for the argument at the May hearing, repeating it on Wednesday.
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The judge said generative AI could flood the market with endless images, songs, articles and books, using only a small portion of the time and creativity needed to create it.
“So, by training generative AI models with copyrighted works, companies often create things that dramatically undermine the market for those works, and thus dramatically undermine the incentives for humans to make things in the old fashioned way,” Chhabria said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
