Sarah Silverman’s Copyright Suit Over Meta AI Model Gets Trimmed

Large portions of Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit claiming Meta Platforms Inc.'s LLaMA AI model violates copyright law were dismissed by a San Francisco federal judge, who called some of the arguments “nonsensical.”

US District Judge Vince Chhabria found that Silverman and other authors’ alternative theories of copyright infringement—that the model is itself an infringing derivative work, as is every output it generates—"are not viable” as described in the complaint. But he said the plaintiffs can refile with new allegations within 21 days.

Meta hasn’t contested Silverman’s core theory of infringement: that Meta used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train ...