(TheConservativeTimes.org) – Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, will be deposed as part of a lawsuit that was brought by authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman, as they accused the company of copyright infringement in order to train its artificial intelligence technology.
United States District Judge Thomas Hinson has rejected Meta’s bid to bar the deposition of Zuckerberg by saying that there is sufficient evidence to show he is the “principal decision maker” for Meta’s AI platforms.
Meta argued that Zuckerberg doesn’t have unique knowledge of the company’s AI operations and that the same information could be obtained from depositions of other employees. Hixson wrote that the authors have “submitted evidence of his specific knowledge in the company’s AI initiatives as well as his direct supervision of Meta’s AI products.”
The lawsuit was filed last year in a California federal court. The authors accused Meta of illegally downloading digital copies of their books and using them to train its AI platforms, without consent or compensation from the authors.
This case against Meta is a similar lawsuit of that in San Francisco and New York against other artificial intelligence chatbot developers like Anthropocene, OpenAI, and Microsoft.
David Boies, a popular attorney, has joined the case on behalf of Silverman and the other plaintiffs in the group, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mike Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas.
Boies is known mainly for representing AI Gore in the disputed election against George W. Bush. The crackdown on artificial intelligence has been very prominent as many artists and authors are speaking out about the illegal usage of their content to train these AI systems.
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