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🎯 Mark Zuckerberg Faces Deposition in AI Copyright Lawsuit From Sarah Silverman and Other Authors

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to be deposed in a lawsuit filed by several authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman, who allege that the company used their copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence technology.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Hixson denied Meta’s request to block the deposition of CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, stating there is enough evidence to suggest he is the "principal decision maker" regarding the company's AI platforms.

Meta contended that Zuckerberg lacks specific, unique knowledge about the company’s AI operations and that the same information could be gathered from depositions with other employees.

In his Tuesday ruling, Judge Hixson stated that the authors have “submitted evidence of [Zuckerberg's] specific involvement in the company’s AI initiatives” and his “direct supervision of Meta’s AI products.”

The class-action lawsuit, filed last year in federal court in California, accuses Meta of unlawfully downloading digital copies of the authors' books and using them—without permission or compensation—to train its AI platforms.

Additionally, this week, renowned attorney David Boies joined the case, representing Sarah Silverman and a group of other plaintiffs, including writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

Boies is widely recognized for representing Al Gore in the contested 2000 presidential election against George W. Bush.

The lawsuit against Meta is part of a broader wave of similar legal actions in San Francisco and New York, targeting other AI chatbot developers, including Anthropic, Microsoft, and ChatGPT creator OpenAI.