Google Accused Of "Stealing Everything Ever Created On Internet" To Train Bard

The company also updated its online privacy policy earlier this month, stating that it can use publicly available data to train its AI tools.

Google was hit with a lawsuit on Tuesday that accused the tech giant of "secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet" in order to train its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Bard. The complaint, filed in San Francisco federal court by eight individuals seeking to represent millions of internet users and copyright holders, said Google's unauthorised scraping of data from websites violated their privacy and property rights, according to a report in Independent. The suit covers Google, its parent company Alphabet and Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind.

"Personal data of every kind, especially conversational data between humans, is critical to the AI training process," the lawsuit alleged.

The complaint also claims that Google has even taken "creative and copywritten works" to build its AI products.