Judge Vince Chhabria Criticizes Legal Team in AI Copyright Case Against Meta Involving Sarah Silverman

A San Francisco federal judge, Vince Chhabria, has criticized the legal team representing authors in a proposed class action lawsuit against Meta, accusing the company of training its AI model on copyrighted books. Chhabria expressed strong disapproval of the Joseph Saveri Law Firm's performance, citing discovery lapses and denying their request for a three-month extension, but granting 14 days instead. He stated, 'I will not certify a class represented by this legal team. There is no way that I would find adequacy of representation.' The case involves high-profile authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman.