on Google, DeepMind and their parent company Alphabet sued the “secret theft of everything that has ever been created and spread on the Internet hundreds of millions of Americans” to create their own chatbot based on artificial intelligence, Bard.
Eight people under pseudonyms participate in the collective lawsuit – among them two minors, 13 and 6 years old – represent the interests of millions of network users. They accuse Alphabet of ten violations of the legislation of the United States and the state of California related to BARD and other Google products in the field of artificial intelligence.
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The news appeared shortly after filing similar claims against OpenAi supported by Microsoft, with accusations of violation of the rights to confidentiality and abuse of the collected data, as well as in violation of copyright.
DeepMind, which is still headed by the co-founder of Demis Hassabis after buying Google in 2014, is mentioned in the lawsuit due to its work on creating a language model for dialogue applications (LAMDA), which is considered important for the development of BARD, as well as other products Google in the field of artificial intelligence.
plaintiffs require at least 5 billion dollars of compensation, a judicial ban on the further use of stolen data and the introduction of “effective cybersecurity measures” to protect data subjects.
Google’s chief legal adviser Halim Delein Prado said that for many years it has been clearly said that we have been using data from public sources for teaching artificial intelligence for services such as Google Translate, and in accordance with our principles of artificial artificial Intelligence “.