Google has been sued for collecting data from millions of users, violating copyright law while training its artificial intelligence (AI).
Law firm Clarkson has filed a lawsuit against Google, its parent company Alphabet, and DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence subsidiary. The document states that Google "secretly steals everything that has ever been created and posted on the Internet by hundreds of millions of Americans." It is also alleged that Google used "virtually the entire digital footprint," including "creative and authorial work" to create its AI-powered products.
Google's general counsel, Halima Delane Prado, in a statement to CNN, called the claims in the lawsuit unfounded.
"We use data from publicly available sources — for example, information published on the open web and publicly available datasets — to train the AI models that underpin services like Google Translate responsibly and in accordance with our AI principles," the lawyer said.
Lawsuit against Meta and OpenAI
A day earlier, the developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, OpenAI, and Meta Corporation (recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) received a lawsuit. The plaintiffs allege that artificial intelligence (AI) models were trained on their jobs. The authors' works were obtained from pirate sites that "have long been used to train AI."
The lawsuit was the second for OpenAI. In June, the company was accused of stealing the personal data of hundreds of millions of social media users. In the 15-point lawsuit, the lawyers noted a breach of confidentiality, negligence due to a failure to protect personal data, and theft by illegally obtaining large amounts of personal data to train their models.
Americans are afraid of AI
As the popularity of AI tools grows, more Americans are wary of this technology. A recent survey found that more than half (62%) of U.S. residents believe that the adoption of artificial intelligence will have a "big impact" on jobs over the next 20 years.
At the same time, only 13% of the participants in the question believe that "AI will help more than harm" American workers. Moreover, many have expressed concern that working with artificial intelligence will lead to increased surveillance and improper data management.