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 outlets for using their articles to train A.I. systems. French regulators have supported publishers' claims of unfair profiting from their content without adequate compensation. Google, though disputing the fine's proportionality, has agreed to pay it and aims to collaborate positively with publishers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/message