Google has asked a California federal court to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company's scraping of data to train generative artificial-intelligence systems violates millions of people's privacy and property rights.
Google argues that the use of public data is necessary to train systems like its chatbot Bard and that the lawsuit would 'take a sledgehammer not just to Google's services but to the very idea of generative AI.'
The lawsuit is one of several recent complaints over tech companies' alleged misuse of content without permission for AI training.
Google general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado said in a statement that the lawsuit was 'baseless' and that U.S. law 'supports using public information to create new beneficial uses.'
Google also said its alleged use of J.L.'s book was protected by the fair use doctrine of copyright law.
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