Mark Zuckerberg really doesn’t want to have answer some hard questions about Meta’s Artificial Intelligence push and goals However, a federal judge this week has told the Facebook founder that is exactly what he has to do.

“Plaintiffs have made an evidentiary showing that Zuckerberg is the chief decision maker and policy setter for Meta’s Generative AI branch and the development of the large language models at issue in this action,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Hixson noted on September 24 in the potential class action initially filed by authors Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Goldenm last year, and now including Ta-Nehisi Coates and others.

Along with a more Imperiled suit against OpenAI, the writers took Meta to court in mid-2023 over copyright infringement concerns that their work and books have been illegally downloaded and used to train the company’s large language model AI software.

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