Microsoft and Google today argued that it is technologically impossible for them to carry out the directions issued by the single-judge.
They said that even Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are not perfect to do the task and the technology is still being developed.
Senior Advocate Arvind Nigam appeared for Google and said that what may appear identical to a human eye may not exactly be identical to the automated algorithm.
“It depends on resolution, configuration, watermark etc. I had filed the affidavit before the single-judge stating all this but the argument was rejected,” Nigam said.
Senior Advocate Jayant Mehta appeared for Microsoft and said that technology is evolving but it yet to reach the stage where NCII images can be removed by the search engines without requiring URLs.
“Technology is evolving but we have not reached that stage yet. To say that you [search engines] are required to do it today otherwise your immunity is gone, that can’t be. It is work in progress. I am endeavouring to reach it. But to say that I must do it today is not fair,” he said.
Source: Barandbench
