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Vince Chhabria

individualCredibility: 85%

Why this score? US District Judge (N.D. Cal.); authored the Kadrey v. Meta fair-use ruling. Judicial statements are the ruling itself, including dicta.

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In most cases it will likely be illegal to copy copyrighted works to train generative AI without permission, because AI trained on those works can generate countless competing works and thereby dilute the market for the originals — so companies will generally need to pay for training rights.?

— Vince Chhabria · Jun 25, 2025
Context: Dicta in the Kadrey opinion articulating a "market dilution" theory. It is a forecast about how future AI-training copyright cases should and will come out; as of this cycle the case law is split (contrast Bartz) and no appellate resolution has issued. Unresolved.