Major book publishers sue Google over Gemini AI stealing millions of copyrighted works, argue tech giant will ‘weaken the incentive to create’
AM New York
Major publishers sued Google for allegedly scraping copyrighted works to train its Gemini AI, claiming the tech giant is profiting from AI-generated substitutes that compete with human authors.Summary
Major book publishers, including Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, have filed a federal class action lawsuit against Google, alleging that the tech giant scraped millions of copyrighted novels, academic books, and articles from the web to train its artificial intelligence platform, Gemini. The publishers claim Google used this vast trove of unauthorized material to create AI-generated works that directly compete with their original content, such as generating full novels or textbook chapters. They argue that this practice not only infringes on copyright but also
(Source：AM New York)