India, June 21 -- Amid the ongoing dogfight between publishers and AI giants, news portals and content platforms have reportedly flagged the use of their copyrighted data for training large language models (LLMs) without permission.

As per Hindustan Times, the representatives from the content industry raised the concerns during a two-day long stakeholder consultation organised by a panel under the aegis of the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT).

Chaired by DPIIT additional secretary Himani Pande between June 19 and June 20, the meeting saw online news platforms term the "training of AI models on copyrighted data without their consent" as copyright infringement. On the other hand, tech giants argued that thei...