SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify as part of a lawsuit filed by authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman, who accuse the company of copyright infringement to train its artificial intelligence technology. .
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hixson rejected Meta’s attempt to block Zuckerberg from appearing in a ruling Tuesday, saying there is enough evidence to show that he is the primary decision-maker for the company’s artificial intelligence platforms. .
Meta had argued that Zuckerberg does not have unique knowledge of the company’s artificial intelligence operations and that the same information could be obtained from the statements of other employees.
The authors have presented evidence of their specific involvement in the company’s AI initiatives, as well as their direct supervision of Meta’s AI products, Hixson wrote in a Tuesday ruling.
The class action lawsuit was filed last year in federal court in California. The authors accuse Meta of illegally downloading digital copies of their books and using them without consent or compensation to train their artificial intelligence platforms.
Also this week, prominent attorney David Boies joined the case on behalf of Silverman and the group of other plaintiffs that includes writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
Boies is best known for representing Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election against George W. Bush.
The case against Meta is part of a series of similar criminal lawsuits in San Francisco and New York against other AI chatbot developers, including Anthropic, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
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