A district judge sided with tech giant Meta on Wednesday in a major copyright infringement case, Richard Kadrey, et al. It marks the second time this week that tech companies have scored major legal victories over AI copyright disputes against individuals. In the case, 13 authors, including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, Junot Diaz, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, argued that Meta violated copyright laws by training its AI models on their copyrighted works without their permission. They didn't show, for instance, that Meta's AI spits out excerpts of books verbatim, creates AI copycat books, or prevents the authors from getting AI licensing deals. The ruling marked the first time that a federal judge has sided with tech companies over creatives in an AI copyright lawsuit.