French regulators punish Google 250 million euros for trespassing on artificial intelligence intellectual property

French competition regulators fined tech giant Google 250 million euros for violating EU copyright regulations in training AI.

French antitrust regulators fined Google for violating EU IP rules pertaining to its media publishers, but the tech giant has settled the charge.

French competition authorities have voiced their displeasure with Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) service, Gemini (formerly Bard), on the grounds that it unlicensed absorbed material from French publications and news organizations.

Google replied to the penalties on its French-language blog by asserting that it is the “first and only platform” with license deals totaling “many tens of millions of euros each year” with 280 publications in the French press.

The Big Tech corporation claims that the penalties and requests for a change in negotiating methods are the outcome of “the manner” in which it handled discussions with the enterprises in question.

Google eventually ended a case that “has been open for too long” by accepting this requirement and the fee.

“It is time to turn the page and concentrate on sustainable alternatives to link Internet users with great material and engage constructively with French publishers. Our numerous agreements with publishers reflect this. So, we have compromised.”

The race for artificial intelligence (AI) expertise is heating up as countries vie for supremacy. Regarding the deficiencies identified by the French watchdog, the corporation saw the punishment as “disproportionate.”

Furthermore, it said that Google’s attempts to address the authorities’ many criticisms were underappreciated, placing the company “in a situation where it is extremely challenging to identify a course of action when one may not expect precise direction.”

A number of prominent French news organizations, notably Agence France Presse (AFP), filed complaints over Google’s web material, which has led to a copyright dispute lawsuit in France and a punishment for the search engine.

Not long ago, on February 19, Google and the French government revealed their intentions to establish a new AI-focused center in the nation’s capital.

Almost 300 scientists and engineers will assemble at the Paris-based facility to bolster France’s artificial intelligence goals.

Mistral AI, a new artificial intelligence firm, and Mistral Large LLM are both based in France. Together with the company, Microsoft will provide Azure AI Studio and Azure Machine Learning with Mistral Large preinstalled.

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