The lawsuit says Google also violated copyright law to train and develop its artificial intelligence products
Updated – Wednesday, July 23 at 09:38
San Francisco: Google has been sued in a class-action lawsuit alleging the tech giant used its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to steal data without the consent of millions of users.
The lawsuit says Google also violated copyright laws to train and develop its artificial intelligence products, CNN reported.
The class-action lawsuit was filed Tuesday in California federal court by law firm Clarksons against Google, its parent company Alphabet and artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind.
The company previously filed a similar lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI last month. (OpenAI did not previously respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.)
According to the lawsuit, Google “has been secretly stealing everything hundreds of millions of Americans create and share on the Internet.”
The indictment also claims that Google “uses virtually our entire digital footprint,” including “creative and copywriting work,” to build its artificial intelligence products.
Google did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
Last week, Google updated its privacy policy to say it can use publicly available data to help train its artificial intelligence models.
The tech giant changed the wording of the policy over the weekend, replacing “artificial intelligence models” with “language models.”
Through the new policy, Google is telling people that anything they post publicly online can be used to train Bard, future versions, and other generative AI products it develops.
Critics have raised concerns about the company’s use of publicly available information to train the large language models used to generate artificial intelligence.
Last month, OpenAI, run by Sam Altman, was sued in a class-action lawsuit in the United States for allegedly stealing public data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
