Google: Data-scraping lawsuit would take 'sledgehammer' to generative AI

- Google has asked a California federal court to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company's scraping of data to train generative artificial-intelligence systems violates millions of people's privacy and property rights.

- Google argues that the use of public data is necessary to train systems like its chatbot Bard and that the lawsuit would 'take a sledgehammer not just to Google's services but to the very idea of generative AI.'

- The lawsuit is one of …

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