A new lawsuit claims that Google has been"secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans" to train its generative AI products like its chatbot Bard., filed by Clarkson Law Firm in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday, accused Google, AI sister company DeepMind, and parent company Alphabet of taking people's data without their knowledge or consent.
"Google must understand, once and for all: it does not own the internet, it does not own our creative works, it does not own our expressions of our personhood, pictures of our families and children, or anything else simply because we share it online," the lawsuit says."'Publicly available' has never meant free to use for any purpose."
Google general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado told Insider in a statement that the company had been"clear for years" that it used data from public sources, like that published to the open web and public datasets, to train the AI models behind services like Google Translate,"responsibly and in line with our AI Principles."
, alleging that the company stole"massive amounts of personal data" and used it to train ChatGPT, including medical records and information about children.