Google today announced that it will offer copyright protection to its generative AI customers. This assurance reflects the company’s commitment to stand by its users when confronted with copyright challenges, reinforcing confidence in the use of its AI-powered solutions.
“Today we’re pleased to share how we’re addressing one key area of interest for our customers: intellectual property indemnity as it pertains to generative AI,” the tech giant said in a blogpost.
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This means that if you are challenged on copyright grounds, Google will take responsibility for the potential legal risks involved.
Google’s commitment to addressing copyright challenges is evident through its two-pronged, industry-first approach. The first aspect pertains to how Google utilises training data, while the second centres on the generated output of foundation models.
This proactive strategy aims to provide users with increased peace of mind when leveraging Google’s generative AI products.
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“An important note here: you as a customer also have a part to play. For example, this indemnity only applies if you didn’t try to intentionally create or use generated output to infringe the rights of others, and similarly, are using existing and emerging tools, for example to cite sources to help use generated output responsibly,” Google explained.
As of now, the tech giant will provide protection for the output generated from these services: Duet AI in Workspace (including generated text in Google Docs and Gmail and generated images in Google Slides and Google Meet), Duet AI in Google Cloud (including Duet AI for assisted application development), Vertex AI Search, Vertex AI Conversation, Vertex AI Text Embedding API / Multimodal Embeddings, Visual Captioning / Visual Q&A on Vertex AI and Codey APIs.
Last month, Microsoft also addressed the concerns about copyright issues related to its AI-powered Copilot services with a new commitment. The commitment assures customers that they can use Copilot and its output without worrying about copyright claims. If any legal challenges arise, the tech giant will take responsibility for the potential legal risks involved.
