Following the likes of Microsoft, Google announced last week that it would be protecting users of its generative AI technology integrated into Workspace and Google Cloud.
“The generated output indemnity means that you can use content generated with a range of our products knowing Google will indemnify you for third-party IP claims, including copyright,” reads Google’s announcement.
The company says that to protect users, they will “employ a two-pronged, industry-first approach.” The first prong is related to Google’s training data. “Specifically, our training data indemnity covers any allegations that Google’s use of training data to create any of our generative models utilized by a generative AI service, infringes a third party’s intellectual property right,” writes Google.
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The second prong is related to generated output. The company says that users will be granted indemnity on the generated output of their AI services in Workplace and a range of other Google products, provided that the users “didn’t try to intentionally create or use generated output to infringe the rights of others.” According to the announcement, the indemnity covers AI generated output from the following 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
- Codey APIs
