Data rights group opposes quick court ruling in AI copyright infringement lawsuit

The data rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking a federal district court to reject a request by plaintiffs for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging copyright violations by Meta’s training of its generative artificial intelligence model Llama.

The group argues the issues being raised in the case are too important for the fate of AI technologies and federal copyright protections to warrant a quick ruling by the court, and instead merit a “full record” for consideration before rendering a...