AI Presumption: Renaissance Introduces Amendments Aimed at Watering Down the Bill
The cultural sector will no doubt see a sense of déjà vu here. Just as during the AI Act negotiations in Brussels, the only amendments introduced to the Darcos bill come from Renaissance lawmakers. All of them modify, to varying degrees, a text that was nevertheless adopted unanimously by the Senate. The bill on the presumption of use of works by generative AI systems, unanimously adopted by the Senate, is being examined today by the National Assembly’s… Committee on Cultural Affairs. But even before the debates began, several amendments tabled by Renaissance MPs have provoked irritation among part of the cultural sector. This situation is reminiscent of the negotiations surrounding the European AI Act, during which the French government had already sought to block several requests from the cultural sector…