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Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France


Meta is facing an AI copyright publisher lawsuit in France accusing it of economic "parasitism," Reuters reports. The French litigation was filed in a

Meta is facing an AI copyright publisher lawsuit in France accusing it of economic “parasitism,” Reuters reports. Meta is facing similar litigation in the U.S. in relation to the alleged use of unlicensed protected material to train its large language models, such as Llama. Reporting on comments made by the publishing associations at a press conference on Wednesday, Reuters quotes Maia Bensimon, the general delegate of SNAC, who alleged Meta is guilty of “monumental looting.” The SNE’s director general, Renaud Lefebvre, also dubbed the legal fight that the publishers are embarking on as a “David versus Goliath battle.”

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