The Silverman case isn’t over. The judge took the position that the output themselves are not infringement, as I think most people agree since it is a transformation, but the core of the case is still ongoing - that the dataset used to train these models contained their copyrighted work. Copying is one of the rights granted to copyright holders and, unlike the Google case a few years back, this is for a commercial product and the books were not legally obtained. Very different cases. I would be surprised if Silverman and the others lost this lawsuit.
The Silverman case isn’t over. The judge took the position that the output themselves are not infringement, as I think most people agree since it is a transformation, but the core of the case is still ongoing - that the dataset used to train these models contained their copyrighted work. Copying is one of the rights granted to copyright holders and, unlike the Google case a few years back, this is for a commercial product and the books were not legally obtained. Very different cases. I would be surprised if Silverman and the others lost this lawsuit.