The wave of lawsuits pending against generative AI developers has reached another crest with new legal actions brought against Google, Microsoft and Open AI.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Google were named in a copyright class action on April 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Butterick Law and Lockridge Grindal Nauen filed the complaint on behalf of cartoonists Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson and Jessica Fink and photographer Jingna Zhang, who contend that Google used their registered copyrights to train Imagen, an AI photo editing assistant, without authorization.
Joeseph Saveri, with the Joseph Saveri Law Firm. (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM)