Google hit with class-action lawsuit over artificial intelligence development
Google hit with class-action lawsuit over artificial intelligence development
Google hit with class-action lawsuit over artificial intelligence development
In a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court, Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., is accused of misusing vast amounts of personal information and copyrighted material for training its artificial intelligence systems. The plaintiffs, who seek to represent millions of internet users and copyright holders, argue that Google’s unauthorized scraping of data from websites violates their privacy and property rights.
California legal outfit Clarkson Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against search giant Google over the company’s recently announced move to scrape all publicly available data from the Internet for training its AI products.
Google is being sued for utilizing copyrighted material and personal information as training fodder for its AI endeavors, including the company’s ChatGPT rival Bard.
The company is said to have used personal and proprietary information. The plaintiffs are demanding $5 billion in damages.
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The complaint highlights a recent update to Google’s privacy policy, which explicitly states that the company may employ publicly accessible information to train its AI models and tools, such as Bard
Google is “secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” to build its Bard artificial intelligence product, pursuing profit while “putting the world
Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab was accused in a proposed class action lawsuit on Tuesday of misusing vast amounts of personal information and copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence systems.