France, Sept. 2 -- French newspapers and magazines are launching an offensive against public online databases used to train generative artificial intelligence applications that they say use content without compensating the authors, putting the France's professional journalism sector's economic model at risk.

Two professional organisations representing 800 newspapers and magazines employing over half of journalists in France announced Monday that they are taking "coordinated action" against public datasets used to train generative artificial intelligence services, such as ChatGPT.

Public-access datasets

The Apig, the general news medial alliance, and the Sepm, the magazine publisher's union, aim to remove their members' content from Com...