Google has urged a California federal court to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the company's data scraping for generative AI violates privacy and property rights. The tech giant defended its use of public data to train systems like its Bard chatbot, claiming that the lawsuit would "take a sledgehammer to not only Google's services, but the very idea of generative AI," and that "using publicly available information to learn is not stealing." The lawsuit was filed by eight individuals in July, accusing Google of misusing content from social media and Google platforms to train AI. Google's general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, called the lawsuit "baseless" and said U.S. law supports using public information for new beneficial uses.
Support our independent, free-access reporting. Any contribution helps and secures our future. Support now:
Sources
News, tests and reports about VR, AR and MIXED Reality.
Meta Quest 3: Nerve-wracking VR vampire hunt Silent Slayer has a release date
Remake of Myst successor Riven is coming to Quest & PC VR this summer
A Meta Quest app lets you step back in time by viewing historical 3D photos
MIXED-NEWS.com
Join our community
Join the DECODER community on Discord, Reddit or Twitter - we can't wait to meet you.