PARIS (Reuters) – The leading publishing societies in France and the authors' associations filed a lawsuit against Metha, the American technology giant, allegedly using public copyright content without permission to train AI.
Meta representatives did not immediately respond to the comment.
The National Union of Authors and Composers (SNAC) and the SGDL Association, which defends the interests of the authors, said at a press conference on Wednesday, who had filed a complaint against Mita earlier this week in the Paris Court of Authors, “
The three associations believe that Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp networks, used to use illegal protected content to train AI's models.
“We are witnessing a huge looting,” said Maya Bensimon, Snack General Representative.
“It is the Battle of David in exchange for the Battle of Galot,” said Sne, Director General of Sne. “It is a procedure that works as an example,” he added.
This is the first such action against the Amnesty International giant in France, but there is a wave of lawsuits, especially in the United States against Mita and other technology companies by the authors, visual artists, music publishers and other copyright owners on data used to train artificial intelligence systems.
In the United States, Meta is a target of the lawsuit filed by American actress and author Sarah Silverman in 2023. Prosecutors argue that Meta misused their books to train her great language model Llama.
American novelist Christopher Varinsworth made a similar suit against Mita in October 2024.
Openai, the company behind Ai Tool Chatgpt, is facing a series of similar lawsuits in the United States, Canada and India.
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