PARIS (Reuters) – France’s main publishing and authors’ associations have filed a lawsuit towards U.S. tech big Meta for allegedly utilizing copyright-protected content material on a large scale with out authorisation to coach its synthetic intelligence (AI) programs.
Representatives for Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The Nationwide Publishing Union (SNE), the main skilled publishing affiliation, the Nationwide Union of Authors and Composers (SNAC) and the Society of Males of Letters (SGDL), which defend the pursuits of authors, instructed a press convention on Wednesday that they had filed a criticism towards Meta earlier this week in a Paris courtroom for alleged copyright infringement and financial “parasitism”.
The three associations consider that Meta, which owns the Fb, Instagram and WhatsApp social networks, was illegally utilizing copyrighted content material to coach its AI fashions.
“We’re witnessing monumental looting,” mentioned Maia Bensimon, normal delegate of SNAC.
“It is a bit of a David versus Goliath battle,” SNE Director Normal Renaud Lefebvre mentioned. “It is a process that serves for instance,” he added.
That is the primary such motion towards an AI big in France however there’s a wave of lawsuits notably in the USA towards Meta and different tech corporations by authors, visible artists, music publishers and different copyright house owners over the information used to coach their generative AI programs.
In the USA, Meta is notably the goal of a lawsuit filed in 2023 by American actress and writer Sarah Silverman and different authors. The plaintiffs argue that Meta misused their books to coach its massive language mannequin Llama.
American novelist Christopher Farnsworth filed an analogous lawsuit towards Meta in October 2024.
OpenAI, the corporate behind the AI instrument ChatGPT, additionally faces a sequence of comparable lawsuits in the USA, Canada, and India.
(Reporting by Florence Loeve, Writing by Dominique Vidalon; Enhancing by Angus MacSwan)
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s main publishing and authors’ associations have filed a lawsuit towards U.S. tech big Meta for allegedly utilizing copyright-protected content material on a large scale with out authorisation to coach its synthetic intelligence (AI) programs.
Representatives for Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The Nationwide Publishing Union (SNE), the main skilled publishing affiliation, the Nationwide Union of Authors and Composers (SNAC) and the Society of Males of Letters (SGDL), which defend the pursuits of authors, instructed a press convention on Wednesday that they had filed a criticism towards Meta earlier this week in a Paris courtroom for alleged copyright infringement and financial “parasitism”.
The three associations consider that Meta, which owns the Fb, Instagram and WhatsApp social networks, was illegally utilizing copyrighted content material to coach its AI fashions.
“We’re witnessing monumental looting,” mentioned Maia Bensimon, normal delegate of SNAC.
“It is a bit of a David versus Goliath battle,” SNE Director Normal Renaud Lefebvre mentioned. “It is a process that serves for instance,” he added.
That is the primary such motion towards an AI big in France however there’s a wave of lawsuits notably in the USA towards Meta and different tech corporations by authors, visible artists, music publishers and different copyright house owners over the information used to coach their generative AI programs.
In the USA, Meta is notably the goal of a lawsuit filed in 2023 by American actress and writer Sarah Silverman and different authors. The plaintiffs argue that Meta misused their books to coach its massive language mannequin Llama.
American novelist Christopher Farnsworth filed an analogous lawsuit towards Meta in October 2024.
OpenAI, the corporate behind the AI instrument ChatGPT, additionally faces a sequence of comparable lawsuits in the USA, Canada, and India.
(Reporting by Florence Loeve, Writing by Dominique Vidalon; Enhancing by Angus MacSwan)
