How a press publisher's case against Google could alter genAI liability

A landmark opinion from Europe’s highest court analyses claims that Gemini unlawfully used a Hungarian news publisher's content for LLM training and the resulting chatbot outputs. If adopted, the recommendations could recalibrate the question of liability, finds Sarah Speight.

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