Google faces lawsuit over alleged use of copyrighted books to train Gemini
A group of publishers has launched legal action against Google, asserting that the company's Gemini AI was built using copyrighted books without obtaining proper permission. The complaint further accuses Google of deliberately altering or deleting copyright data from these materials to hide the fact that they were used for model training. According to the filing, Google leveraged platforms like Google Books to utilize the copyrighted content.