RYAN WHITWAM , Ars Technica; Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”
"Disney has sent a cease and desist to Google, alleging the company’s AI tools are infringing Disney’s copyrights “on a massive scale.”
According to the letter, Google is violating the entertainment conglomerate’s intellectual property in multiple ways. The legal notice says Google has copied a “large corpus” of Disney’s works to train its gen AI models, which is believable, as Google’s image and video models will happily produce popular Disney characters—they couldn’t do that without feeding the models lots of Disney data.
The C&D also takes issue with Google for distributing “copies of its protected works” to consumers."
