The Great Book Heist: Google's Quest for Knowledge at Any Cost Major book publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging copyright infringement over the tech giant's use of copyrighted materials to train its Gemini AI models.
This case centers on the reuse of millions of copyrighted books originally supplied for limited services like Google Books and Google Play Books.
The publishers argue that these platforms allowed Google to use select excerpts or sell e books, but not copy them wholesale for training commercial AI products.