EU Advisor: Gemini's Use May Violate Copyright Rules

The EU's Advocate General, Maciej Szpunar, stated that Google's AI robot "Gemini" may violate copyright rules under certain conditions. He explained that when the robot retrieves a journalistic publication and reuses it to create a response, it could infringe the publisher's rights. Szpunar asserted that copyright rules protect the specific expression rather than mere facts. He also noted that using copyrighted materials to train large language models is permitted under the text and data mining exception, raising questions about how these rules apply in the context of AI.