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Naver faces complaint over AI training from South Korean newspapers

( April 25, 2025, 02:58 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Naver has been reported to South Korea's antitrust regulator by an association of local newspapers for its unauthorized use of news content in training large language models. The Korean Association of Newspapers also alleged that the country’s top AI company infringed on the copyrights and interests of its members by refusing to disclose details about the data used for training and operating LLMs as well as by using news content in an AI-aided search service without authorization. The association said such practices resulted from an abuse of its dominant market position in the domestic search and online news distribution markets, and from the abuse of the superior bargaining position arising from its news affiliation contracts with media outlets. The statement, in Korean, is attached....

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