Google's A.I. Service Draws Early Copyright And Privacy Class Action

Google Bard competitor ChatGPT also getting attention from plaintiffs and regulators.

Allegations have lingered for centuries in far-off corners of the literary world that legendary poet and playwright William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, stole some of his most famous works. Broad rejection of such claims has been around as long as they have. Now, another Bard has been accused of stealing the writings of others.

Google Bard — Google's artificial intelligence chatbot — is trained on misappropriated copyrighted data and private information from services including Gmail and Google Search, plaintiffs charge in a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (J.L., et al. v. Alphabet Inc., Google Deepmind, and Google LLC, No. 3:23-cv-3440, N.D. Calif.).