Class Action Suit Challenges Google Data Scraping and AI Use
Summary
On July 11, 2023, a class action complaint was filed against Google’s parent company Alphabet in California federal court. The complaint alleges that Google’s AI products such as its chatbot Bard and other generative AI products were trained on impermissibly obtained user data in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and California state and common law. The complaint requests both monetary and injunctive relief, alleging nearly $5 billion in damages and requesting additional oversight and transparency measures for future data scraping operations and AI offerings. This complaint follows a class action complaint filed by the same law firm against OpenAI in June.
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