Google offices in New York City. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Artists Sue Google, Alleging It Used Copyrighted Work in AI Training Database
This is the 22nd of 23 such lawsuits filed against AI developers for copyright infringement.
April 30, 2024 at 06:26 PM
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What You Need to Know
- Two more copyright infringement lawsuits were recently filed against Google, Microsoft and Open AI for using work they didn't have the rights to to train AI models.
- The plaintiffs suing Google contend the company is purposefully opaque about the dataset used to train its AI image editing software so it doesn't get sued.
- Two of the artists named in the complaint also have a similar case pending against Stability AI.
The wave of lawsuits pending against generative AI developers has reached another crest with new legal actions brought against Google, Microsoft and Open AI.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Google were named in a copyright class action on April 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Butterick Law and Lockridge Grindal Nauen filed the complaint on behalf of cartoonists Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson and Jessica Fink and photographer Jingna Zhang, who contend that Google used their registered copyrights to train Imagen, an AI photo editing assistant, without authorization.
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