EU court adviser believes Google's Gemini could be breaking copyright rules

Google’s Gemini chatbot could potentially violate press publishers’ rights when it pulls articles from news sites to build its answers, according to an adviser to the European Court of Justice. The new finding could affect all generative AI services operating in the EU. The opinion, written by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, draws a line between two ways AI companies use copyrighted news content. He said AI companies can use protected articles to train large language models. EU law allows this under an exception for text and data mining. The problem starts after training. Szpunar believes a chatbot could break copyright rules if it takes content from a news article and uses it in a reply to a user.

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