A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology.

A federal judge dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta Platforms brought by authors, including Sarah Silverman. The ruling suggests the authors made weak arguments, though it raises the broader issue of AI companies potentially infringing copyright by using written works for AI training without permission.

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books