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Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Gemini
A French authority fined Google €250 million after it found that news content was used to train Gemini and other shortcomings.
However, its managing director for news and publishing partnerships, Sulina Connal, struck a peeved tone – writing in a lengthy blog post that “the fine is not proportionate to issues raised” by the authority. In its blog post it writes that the competition authority “does not challenge the way web content is used to improve newer products like generative AI, which is already addressed in Article 4 of the EUCD” [EU Copyright Directive]. The Autorité is also sanctioning Google for a raft of other issues related to how it negotiates with French news publishers, finding it failed to provide them with all the information needed to ensure fair bargaining of remuneration for their content.
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