French publishers and authors are taking Meta to court, accusing the social media company of using their works without permission to train its artificial intelligence model.

France’s National Publishing Union has noted “numerous works” from its members in Meta’s data pool, the group’s president, Vincent Montagne, said in a joint statement. He also accused the company of “noncompliance with copyright and parasitism.”

France's leading publishing and authors' associations have filed a lawsuit against U.S. tech giant Meta for allegedly using copyright-protected content on a massive scale without authorisation to train its artificial intelligence (AI) systems.