evidence: Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has filed a lawsuit against a trio of scammers who allegedly created and promoted a fake version of Bard, its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to gain access to victims’ social media accounts. In its filing, Google argues that the scammers violated existing copyright rules by parading themselves as official social media pages, offering free versions and new updates to Bard. Leveraging on the growing popularity of AI in recent months, the scammers baited thousands of unsuspecting victims to download the fake Bard software. [...] Google’s lawsuit comes on the heels of an adoption spike for generative AI tools in recent months, with millions of consumers relying on the products for efficiency and productivity. Bard and OpenAI‘s ChatGPT have managed to snag a massive chunk of the market share since launch but face several lawsuits over copyright violations.