Google Faces Class-Action Lawsuit for Allegedly Stealing Data to Train AI

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against Google, DeepMind, and Alphabet accuses the tech giant of secretly collecting people's data without their knowledge or consent to train its AI products, including the chatbot Bard. The lawsuit claims that Google has taken personal and professional information, creative works, photographs, and emails from millions of Americans to build its AI models. The complaint also references an update to Google's privacy policy, which states that publicly available online information may be collected for AI training purposes. Google has called the claims baseless and stated that it uses public information responsibly. This lawsuit follows a similar complaint against OpenAI for allegedly using personal data to train its ChatGPT.