Generative AI a transformative tool, Microsoft tells US court
( October 23, 2026, 20:19 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Microsoft responded to a summary judgment motion from book authors in coordinated US copyright cases in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, saying the authors are ignoring the "profoundly transformative purpose" of large language model training. "It may well be that among the countless things LLMs are useful for, one is to help writers work on books — the way several Books Plaintiffs themselves use the technology. But that does not make generating books the purpose of building an LLM any more than the purpose of manufacturing a hammer is to generate chairs," Microsoft wrote.See attached file....
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