ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The company, alongside many of its competitors in the AI space, has been indiscriminately scraping the internet for content, without compensating rightsholders, racking up many copyright infringement lawsuits along the way. But when it comes to its own tech being copied, Google has no problem pointing fingers. This week, the company accused “commercially motivated” actors of trying to clone its Gemini AI. In a Thursday report, Google complained it had become under “distillation attacks,” with agents querying Gemini up to 100,000 times to “extract” the underlying model — the convoluted AI industry equivalent of copying somebody’s homework, basically. Google called the attacks a “method of intellectual property theft that violates Google’s terms of service” — which, let’s face it, is a glaring double standard given its callous approach to scraping other IP without remuneration. Google remained vague on who it identified as the culprits, beyond pointing out “private sector entities” and “researchers seeking …