Google asks court to dismiss AI data scraping class action
The post Google asks court to dismiss AI data scraping class action appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Tech giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is seeking to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming it has violated the privacy and property rights of “hundreds of millions of Americans” by scraping data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) programs, such as its generative AI chatbot ‘Bard.’ The motion, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday, argued that the claims against the company are based on a false premise “that training Generative AI models on information publicly shared on the internet is ‘stealing.’” Instead, Google argued, “Using publicly available information to learn is not stealing. Nor is it an invasion of privacy, conversion, negligence, unfair competition, or copyright infringement.” The company also suggested that allowing the lawsuit to proceed would “take a sledgehammer not just to Google’s services but to the very idea of generative AI.” The class action was brought in July by eight individuals claiming to represent “millions of class members” and accusing Google of multiple violations, including invasion of privacy, negligence, and copyright infringement. “Google has taken all our personal and professional information, our creative and copywritten works, our photographs, and even our emails—virtually the entirety of our digital footprint—and is using it to build commercial Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) products,” claimed the suit. “For years Google harvested this data in secret, without notice or consent from anyone.” The class action argued that the plaintiffs’ privacy and property rights were violated under a Google privacy policy change a week before the suit was filed to allow data scraping for AI training purposes. Google “quietly updated its online privacy policy last week to double-down on its position that everything on the internet is fair game,” said the plaintiffs. They also argued that “‘publicly available’ has never meant free to use for any purpose.” In its October 17 response, Google argued…
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Tech giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is seeking to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming it has violated the privacy and property rights of “hundreds of millions of Americans” by scraping data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) programs, such as its generative AI chatbot ‘Bard.’ The motion, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday, argued that the claims against the company are based on a false premise “that training Generative AI models on information publicly shared on the internet is ‘stealing.’” Instead, Google argued, “Using publicly available information to learn is not stealing. Nor is it an invasion of privacy, conversion, negligence, unfair competition, or copyright infringement.” The company also suggested that allowing the lawsuit to proceed would “take a sledgehammer not just to Google’s services but to the very idea of generative AI.” The class action was brought in July by eight individuals claiming to represent “millions of class members” and accusing Google of multiple violations, including invasion of privacy, negligence, and copyright infringement. “Google has taken all our personal and professional information, our creative and copywritten works, our photographs, and even our emails—virtually the entirety of our digital footprint—and is using it to build commercial Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) products,” claimed the suit. “For years Google harvested this data in secret, without notice or consent from anyone.” The class action argued that the plaintiffs’ privacy and property rights were violated under a Google privacy policy change a week before the suit was filed to allow data scraping for AI training purposes. Google “quietly updated its online privacy policy last week to double-down on its position that everything on the internet is fair game,” said the plaintiffs. They also argued that “‘publicly available’ has never meant free to use for any purpose.” In its October 17 response, Google argued…
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