US trial# For chasing AI profits, Google was accused of "secretly stealing everything created and shared by hundreds of millions of Americans on the internet" and "putting the world at risk"
Google, which recently released the Bard chatbot to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT, filed Tuesday in California federal court alleging that Google violated the copyrights and privacy of hundreds of millions of people by secretly acquiring vast amounts of data to "train" its AI products
The lawsuit alleges that Google, in order to build its "Bard" AI product, pursued profits while "putting the world at risk with untested and volatile AI."
Bard, ChatGPT, and other generative AI tools work by gathering information from the internet and learning how to use that input coherently, giving them the ability to write papers, have conversations, and create images; The FTC warned last month that companies must legally collect data used to improve algorithms, and it is focusing on competition in generative AI, saying companies competing to enter the market could end up with superpower
The plaintiffs allege that despite warnings from the FTC, Google instead quietly updated its online privacy policy to "double down on the emphasis that everything on the internet is fair game" and that Google could profit from enhancing its AI products
The plaintiffs allege that Google should have purchased Internet data, including information obtained with the consent of the creator or owner of the copyrighted work; However, instead of using this lawful avenue, Root Google chose to obtain personal data without notice, consent or reasonable compensation
The lawsuit alleges that Google violated the California Unfair Competition Act, negligently, violated the California Constitution's right to privacy, theft, unjust enrichment, directly infringed copyright, indirectly infringed copyright, and violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; It seeks injunctive relief, statutory damages, triple damages, punitive and exemplary damages, restitution, forfeiture of profits, compensation for attorneys' fees and court costs, and other relief
