Publishers and Authors Sue Google for Allegedly Using Copyrighted Content to Train Gemini, Internal Documents Warned of Risk of Billions in Fines
Publishers and authors, including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and writer Scott Turow, have collectively sued Google for allegedly using copyrighted works without permission to train its AI platform Gemini, and intentionally removing or altering copyright information to cover up the infringement. They claim that works were provided to Google only for limited purposes like book search, but Google used them to train AI models through Google Books a....