In France, #Google has been slapped with a €250mn fine for breaching #EU intellectual property rules in how it deals with #media #publishers, including scraping news articles to train its AI models without permission.
The regulator found Google guilty of scraping content from news websites to train its chatbot Bard — now Gemini — without notifying publishers or the authorities. Google also didn’t provide a way for publishers to opt out.
https://thenextweb.com/news/french-competition-watchdog-fines-google-250m-ai-copyright