On Thursday, Google said that it will defend users of its Workspace and Google Cloud services against claims of intellectual property infringement in court. Together with Adobe, Microsoft, and other companies that have provided similar guarantees, Google also discloses this information.
Well-known tech companies such as Google have been making significant investments in the field of generative AI and are rushing to implement it in their operations.
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Prominent writers, artists, and other copyright holders have frequently argued that AI-generated material and the use of their works as training data infringe on their rights.
A Google representative said, “To our knowledge, Google is the first in the industry to offer a comprehensive, two-pronged approach to indemnity,” referring particularly to both types of claims.
According to reports, Google’s new rules apply to programs that generate text and images for use in Google Workspace and cloud services, including its Duet AI system and Vertex AI development platform. The news release made no mention of Bard, Google’s more well-known generative AI chatbot program.
Furthermore, the business makes it clear that the indemnity does not apply to customers who “intentionally create or use generated output to infringe the rights of others”.
The most recent wave of generative AI lawsuits has often targeted the firms that own the systems, such as Google, rather than specific end users.
AI defendants have claimed that they are allowed to use internet training resources for their systems because of US copyright laws.
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