Google's use of press by AI chatbot may infringe copyright rules, EU court adviser says
Google's Gemini AI may violate copyright rules when it uses publishers' content to generate answers, an EU court adviser said, while distinguishing that use from AI training.
An EU court adviser has warned that Google's AI chatbot Gemini may be breaching copyright laws when it employs press articles to generate responses to user queries. Advocate General Maciej Szpunar indicated that while copyright protection does not extend to the factual content reported in press publications, it does cover the specific manner in which that information is expressed.
Szpunar's comments come in response to a case brought by Hungarian website operator Like Company against Google. The advocate-general's advice is typically given considerable weight by the court's judges. He explained that the use of copyrighted material to train large language models is permitted under the existing text and data mining exception.
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