French organizations representing publishers and authors are initiating legal action against Meta for allegedly using copyrighted works without permission to train their generative AI models. The groups comprising SNE, SGDL, and SNAC highlighted substantial unauthorized use of work, with evidence of many SNE members’ books present in Meta’s training data. While Meta claims their actions fall under 'fair use', French creatives demand AI firms comply with legal frameworks and seek compensation for leveraging their works in developing AI technologies.
We have established the presence of many works published by SNE members in the body of data used by Meta.
Meta acknowledged using a database, Books3, containing the full texts of around 200,000 books including some in French to train its Llama large language model.
Their case at the Paris judicial court 'should lead to a serious desire emerging on the part of AIs to take the creative industries into account,' SGDL head Christophe Hardy said.
He called on AI developers to 'respect the legal framework and, where relevant, find compensation for the use of works that feed into' the technology.
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