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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.

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More than 20 girls in the Spanish town of Almendralejo received AI-generated nude photos of themselves, sparking debate over whether deepfakes can be legally punished, Euronews reports. The images were reportedly altered using the app ClothOff ("Undress AI, Undress girl for free!") and shared in WhatsApp groups. The images don't show the girls' real bodies, but are still causing great distress to the victims, some of whom are as young as 11. The national police have launched an investigation and authorities are considering whether the images in circulation could be considered child pornography.

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