The SGDL Launches an Opt-Out Tool for Authors
One year after its legal action against Meta, the SGDL is launching a service that allows authors to opt out of having their works used to train artificial intelligence systems. The Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL) is continuing its strategy to defend authors in the face of AI. One year after suing Meta for the massive unauthorized use of works, the authors’ organization is launching, on April 15, a service allowing writers… to exercise their right to object to text and data mining (TDM). In March 2025, alongside the SNAC and the SNE, the SGDL filed a lawsuit with the Paris Court of Justice to challenge the training of generative AI models on corpora that included protected books. The organizations denounced a “plundering” of works and demanded, in particular,…