Magistrate Judge Rejects Meta’s ‘False Dichotomy,’ Faults Some AI Discovery

( January 21, 2025, 4:23 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s “false dichotomy” about the possible answers regarding its use of copyrighted material in an artificial intelligence case is based on minor quibbles about the extent of the copying and does not “justify the hopelessly vague” answers it offered about what its search of the training data revealed, a federal magistrate judge in California said Jan. 17 in partially granting motions to compel....