Sarah Silverman Lawyers Get Judge’s Harsh Rebuke in Meta AI Case

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The legal team bringing a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of training its AI model on copyrighted books of authors including comedian Sarah Silverman is failing to adequately represent its clients, a San Francisco federal judge said at a Friday hearing.

“You and your team have barely been litigating the case, that’s obvious,” Judge Vince Chhabria told the authors’ attorney Joseph Saveri of the Saveri Law Firm LLP.