Google Faces Another?Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Expanding Its AI Using Scraped Data

In a proposed class action lawsuit, alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) was charged with allegedly mishandling a sizable amount of personal data and copyrighted content to train its artificial intelligence systems.

Attorney for the plaintiffs Ryan Clarkson issued a statement saying, "Google does not own the internet, it does not own our creative works, it does not own our expressions of who we are, pictures of our families and children, or anything else simply because we share it online."

According to Reuters, eight entities filed a complaint in San Francisco federal court on behalf of millions of internet users and copyright holders, alleging that Google's unauthorised collection of data from websites violates their rights to privacy and property.

It should also be noted that in June, Clarkson's company sued Microsoft-backed OpenAI in the same court in a related case.

In both cases, Clarkson's firm urged the court to allow the plaintiffs to remain nameless due to alleged violent threats from those bringing comparable lawsuits.

According to the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the corporation may owe at least $5 billion.

Halimah DeLaine Prado, general counsel at Google, stated, "The company has been transparent for years that we use data from public sources to train the AI models underpinning services like Google Translate, responsibly and in line with our AI Principles".

The content mentioned in the lawsuit included everything from TikTok videos to Spotify playlists and images from dating services. One of the claimants, J.L., a Texas best-selling author and investigative journalist, said Google also used a whole copy of her book to teach Bard.

Internet users were asked to choose whether or not they wanted to be part of Google's "illicit data collection" in the lawsuit, and it requested the court to order Google to either delete any existing data or provide its owners "fair compensation."