Meta Faces Copyright Infringement Lawsuit in France Over AI Training

Meta is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit in France brought by trade associations representing publishers and authors, who accuse the company of training its generative artificial intelligence model on their books without permission.Publishers’ trade association SNE, authors’ association SGDL and writers’ union SNAC brought the suit in a Paris court focused on intellectual property, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (March 12).SNE President Vincent Montagne told a press conference Wednesday that the group ...