y Mail to sue Google for Bard copyright issue //
Google could soon face new legal actions over copyright issues by the owner of Daily Mail.
Bard, the ChatGPT competitor of the search engine, allegedly stole hundreds of thousands articles from newspapers to train its ChatGPT competitors.
According to the Telegraph, the Daily Mail and General Trust, the publishing house that is owned by Lord Rothermere has already sought legal counsel and is preparing an official lawsuit against Google.
Why we care. Pierre Far explains in Crawlers and search engines: the sleaze and shadiness of generative AI firms that search engines used give website owners full control over crawling and indexing their content. The rise of generative AI based on large language models that are trained using web content has changed this. Google and OpenAI’s actions have angered many content creators and publishing companies who fear that this could have negative effects.
What did Google do? Google created a dataset for Bard by using 1,000,000 articles from publishers without their knowledge or permission. The Daily and CNN are said to have provided 75% of the stories.
Why did Google use content from the Daily Mail and CNN? Google is said to have used the content because both publishers summarize articles with bullet points on the top of each story. The search engine allegedly tested Bard by giving it bullet-point summaries of stories with blanks, and then asking it to fill them in based on the body copy.
What has Google said about the reports? Google, DMGT, and CNN all declined to comment.
Another legal problem. This news comes days after eight plaintiffs, including an author who is a best-selling writer from Texas, claimed that Google had illegally used copyrighted material, and stolen the personal data of millions of Americans in order to train its AI product. They filed a class action lawsuit last week in San Francisco. If Google is found to be guilty, they could face a $5 billion fine.
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