In a blog post, Google said customers using products that are now embedded with generative AI features will be protected, attempting to assuage growing fears that generative AI could run afoul of copyright rules. It specifically mentioned seven products it would legally cover: 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 on Vertex AI, and Codey APIs. Google’s Bard search tool was not mentioned.
“If you are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks involved,” the company said.
Google said it will follow a “two-pronged, industry-first approach” for intellectual property indemnification, which will cover its training data and results created from its foundation models. This means if someone gets sued because Google’s training data used copyrighted material, Google will take that legal heat.
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David, E. (2023, October 12). Google promises to take the legal heat in users’ AI copyright lawsuits. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/12/23914998/google-copyright-indemnification-generative-ai
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