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Lawsuit Accuses Google of Scraping Personal Data from Millions to Train AI Systems

HeadlineJul 12, 2023

In San Francisco, a class-action lawsuit accuses Google of violating the privacy and property rights of millions of users by scraping their personal data and copyrighted material from websites without permission. The information was then used to train Google’s artificial intelligence systems, including the chatbot Bard. Plaintiffs say Google “has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” to develop its AI products.

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