Google has been the subject of a new copyright lawsuit in federal court in California by a group of visual artists who claim the Alphabet unit used their work without permission to train Imagen, its intelligence-based image generator. artificial.
Photographer Jingna Zhang and cartoonists Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson and Jessica Fink claim in the class action lawsuit filed Friday that Google is responsible for the misuse of “billions” of copyrighted images, including their own. to teach Image to respond to human text prompts
The photographer and cartoonists’ lawsuit is one of several lawsuits that copyright holders could file against technology companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta for data used to train their generative artificial intelligence systems.
Google representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new lawsuit on Monday. The artists’ lawyers, Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, said in a statement that the case was “another example of a multibillion-dollar technology company deciding to train a commercial AI product with the copyrighted works of others without consent, credit or compensation”.
Zhang and Andersen are also involved in a similar lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and other companies for allegedly misusing their work to train AI image generators. According to the lawsuit filed Friday, Google used one of the same data sets that Stability and Midjourney used to train their systems to train Image.
The artists are asking the court for damages and an order forcing Google to destroy copies of their works.
2024-04-30 00:29:35
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