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Google seeks dismissal of class-action lawsuit over AI data scraping

Google is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that it violated the privacy and property rights of millions of internet users by scraping publicly available data to train its AI chatbot, Bard. The lawsuit, filed in July 2023, claims that Google's privacy policy change allowed data scraping for AI training without consent. Google has filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that using publicly available information is not stealing and that the lawsuit threatens generative AI.

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