French Regulators Slap Google with €250 Million Fine

Google has been fined €250 million by French regulators for not negotiating fair licensing deals with media companies and for using their articles to train its artificial intelligence (A.I.) algorithms without informing them. This violation of a previous agreement has sparked a larger conflict between Google and publishers regarding compensation for the use of news content in search results. The struggle is not exclusive to Google, as Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is also facing objections from media …

agreement algorithms articles artificial artificial intelligence companies compensation conflict deals fair french google intelligence licensing media publishers regulators them train