Google will protect users of its AI products from copyright lawsuits

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Google has promised to take legal responsibility if users of its AI products are sued for copyright infringement.

Here's What We Know

The legal defence will cover seven generative AI products:

• Duet AI in Workspace (including text generated in Google Docs and Gmail, and images in Google Slides and Google Meet);
• Duet AI in Google Cloud;
• Vertex AI Search;
• Vertex AI Conversation;
• Vertex AI Text Embedding API;
• Visual Captioning;
• Codey APIs.

The Bard chatbot is not on the list.

Google said it will take a "two-pronged approach" to intellectual property damages. This applies to both training data and results generated from the company's underlying models.

For example, Google will take on litigants if its training data used copyright infringing material.

The company will also defend users if they are sued because of AI-generated texts similar to the original. This does not include intentional infringements.

Go Deeper:

• Microsoft will take responsibility if commercial users of Copilot AI are sued for copyright infringement

Source: Google