Earlier this week, two subsidiaries of Google were dropped from a proposed class action in a California federal court. The lawsuit alleges that Google used private and copyrighted information from hundreds of millions of Americans to train a generative AI chatbot called Bard.
The specific identities of the Google entities involved, along with the reasons as to why they were dropped from the lawsuit, are currently undisclosed. Nonetheless, the dismissal of these Google units reprieve, at least temporarily, certain elements of Alphabet’s conglomerate from facing the legal implications associated with this grand-scale data-related controversy.
The mammoth case, potentially touching the lives of countless Americans, accuses Google of training its AI chatbot through unauthorized access and utilization of vast amounts of personal and copyrighted data. This allegation demonstrates another complex intersection where rapidly evolving technology challenges the parameters and interpretations of existing law.
For those closely following the intricate dance of artificial intelligence, privacy issues, and the law, more elements of this developing story can be found through Law360’s detailed coverage here .