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CTOnews.com, July 13 (Xinhua)-- Google (GOOG) is accused of stealing people's data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) products, such as its chat robot Bard, without users' knowledge or consent. The lawsuit alleges that Google "secretly stole everything that hundreds of millions of Americans created and shared on the Internet".

The class action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by law firm Clarkson Law Firm in federal court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google, its AI subsidiary DeepMind and parent company Alphabet stole people's data. The lawsuit alleges that "Google took all our personal and professional information, our creative and copyright works, our photos and even our emails-almost all of our digital footprints" to build its AI products. "over the years, Google has secretly collected this data without notification or consent from anyone."

The lawsuit also alleges that Google stole data from subscription-based sites and sites known for pirated books and creative works. The lawsuit also refers to Google's July 1 update to its privacy policy, which said the company might collect information available "publicly online" to train its AI model and build products such as Google Google Translate, Bard and cloud AI (Cloud AI).

"Google must understand that it does not own the Internet, nor does it own our creative works, our personality expressions, photos of our families and children, or anything else that belongs to us because we share it online," the lawsuit said. 'publicly available' never means it can be used for any purpose for free. "

In a statement to Reuters, Google called the allegations in the lawsuit "baseless". Halimah DeLaine Prado, Google's general counsel, told Insider in a statement that the company had "made it clear for many years" that it used data from public sources, such as those published on open networks and public data sets, to train the artificial intelligence models behind services such as Google translation "and in line with our AI principles (AI Principles)".

Delane Prado also said: "US law supports the use of public information to create new useful uses, and we look forward to dismissing these baseless allegations."

CTOnews.com notes that Clarkson filed a similar complaint against OpenAI two weeks ago, accusing the company of stealing "large amounts of personal data" and using it to train ChatGPT, including medical records and information about children.

One of the plaintiffs in Google's lawsuit, who is said to be a Texas-based New York Times best-selling author and investigative journalist, claims that Google used pirated PDF of her book to train Bard. The lawsuit alleges that her work is now widely available for free on Bard, with the robot giving summaries of chapters and even sharing excerpts from the book word for word.

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