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## Segment 2 — tail2

## Article 126 — a126

# Judge Vincent Chhabria

A U.S. District Judge in the Northern District of California who presided over *Kadrey v. Meta* ([[entity-meta-d2]]) and is one of the source's cited judicial voices.

He took a stricter stance toward Gen AI companies, indicating that unlicensed use of copyrighted materials for training is likely *not* fair use because LLMs create products enabling users to generate countless competing works — fundamentally unlike human learning (see [[quote-chhabria-competing]]).

**Role in the source:** He anchors the market-harm-skeptical pole of the fair-use divergence (see [[concept-fair-use-divergence]]). **Enrichment note:** legal commentary suggests his actual disposition was more procedural — rejecting the authors' claims for failure to show reproduction or market harm, stressing market effect as the most important factor, and refusing to recognize an automatic AI-training licensing right. The strong "countless competing works" quotation attributed to him should be treated as paraphrase pending verification against the opinion text. **Attributed quote:** [[quote-chhabria-competing]].