January 22, 2025
Google has asked a California federal judge to throw out a consolidated proposed class action brought by visual artists and authors claiming the tech company infringed their copyrights to train artificial intelligence models, arguing that the complaint doesn't specifically identify the copyrighted works that have allegedly been infringed.
April 29, 2024
A group of visual artists has filed a proposed class action claiming Google's text-to-image artificial intelligence tool Imagen is trained by copying "enormous amounts" of artists' copyrighted works without authorization, the latest suit challenging the use of vast datasets for AI training.