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Google Faces Another AI Training Lawsuit from Major Publishers
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
TL;DR
- Publishers and authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing it of using copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini.
- The plaintiffs allege Google removed or altered copyright information on these works to conceal the use of "stolen materials."
- This lawsuit is one of several filed against AI companies by copyright holders.
- Previous court decisions in California have favored AI companies, ruling that using copyrighted works for AI training can be considered "fair use."
- Anthropic was fined $1.5 billion for pirating works for its AI training.
- The lawsuit against Google claims the company used books from Google Books and the Google Play store for AI training without permission.
- An internal Google document allegedly indicated that using copyrighted books for AI training could be "highly problematic" and result in significant fines.