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.

Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France that's been brought by authors and publishers who are accusing it of economic "parasitism," Reuters

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.