Google sued for ‘secretly stealing’ data to train its AI products
Google confirmed last week that it updated its policy and added that it uses publicly available information from the open web to train language models for services like Google Translate and Bard. Based on this, the company has been hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit.
According to a report by CNN, the lawsuit alleged that the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent. It also noted that it also violated copyright laws when it trained and developed its AI products.
The proposed class action suit is filed against Google, its parent company Alphabet and its AI subsidiary Google DeepMind by Clarkson Law Firm. It is the same firm that filed a similar suit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI last month.
The complaint alleged that Google “has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” and using this data to train its AI products, such as its chatbot Bard.
One of the attorneys said that Google “needs to understand that ‘publicly available’ has never meant free to use for any purpose.”
“Our personal information and our data is our property, and it’s valuable, and nobody has the right to just take it and use it for any purpose,” he said.
The suit is seeking a temporary freeze on commercial access to and commercial development of Google’s generative AI tools like Bard as well as unspecified damages and payments as financial compensation to people whose data was allegedly misappropriated by Google.
Google’s updated policy
Google spokesperson Christa Muldoon said that the company’s privacy policy has been transparent all along.
“Our privacy policy has long been transparent that Google uses publicly available information from the open web to train language models for services like Google Translate,” Muldoon was quoted as saying.
“This latest update simply clarifies that newer services like Bard are also included. We incorporate privacy principles and safeguards into the development of our AI technologies, in line with our AI Principles,” added Muldoon.
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Google confirmed last week that it updated its policy and added that it uses publicly available information from the open web to train language models for services like Google Translate and Bard. Based on this, the company has been hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit.
According to a report by CNN, the lawsuit alleged that the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent. It also noted that it also violated copyright laws when it trained and developed its AI products.
The proposed class action suit is filed against Google, its parent company Alphabet and its AI subsidiary Google DeepMind by Clarkson Law Firm. It is the same firm that filed a similar suit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI last month.
The complaint alleged that Google “has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” and using this data to train its AI products, such as its chatbot Bard.
One of the attorneys said that Google “needs to understand that ‘publicly available’ has never meant free to use for any purpose.”
“Our personal information and our data is our property, and it’s valuable, and nobody has the right to just take it and use it for any purpose,” he said.
The suit is seeking a temporary freeze on commercial access to and commercial development of Google’s generative AI tools like Bard as well as unspecified damages and payments as financial compensation to people whose data was allegedly misappropriated by Google.
Google’s updated policy
Google spokesperson Christa Muldoon said that the company’s privacy policy has been transparent all along.
“Our privacy policy has long been transparent that Google uses publicly available information from the open web to train language models for services like Google Translate,” Muldoon was quoted as saying.
“This latest update simply clarifies that newer services like Bard are also included. We incorporate privacy principles and safeguards into the development of our AI technologies, in line with our AI Principles,” added Muldoon.
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