The Autorité de la Concurrence in France fined Google around $270 million for disregarding some of its previous commitments with news publishers. The decision highlights Google’s use of news publishers’ content to train its generative AI model, Bard/Gemini. The competition authority found fault with Google for failing to notify news publishers of this AI usage of their copyrighted material. This penalty adds to the ongoing tensions between Google and France’s competition authority concerning copyright protections for news snippets.
