Google’s policy update: Everything you post will be used for AI training
Google’s policy update: Everything you post will be used for AI training
Google’s policy update: Everything you post will be used for AI training.
If you have any concerns about what you post publicly online being fed into AI models, take a look at Google’s updated privacy policy.
The document now makes it clear that the company reserves the right to collect and analyze nearly everything people share online to train its AI systems.
Google’s update over the weekend introduced new language to its privacy policy.
It has previously said that people’s data will be used to train “language” models, only mentioning Google Translate.
The updated version changes it to “AI Model”, specifically mentioning Bard and Cloud AI along with the translator.
One of the many controversial issues with generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Bard is the way they collect and use data.
While it may be public information, that doesn’t stop plagiarism and privacy concerns, not to mention the potential for AI to misinterpret what was said or provide outdated old answers.
Even Google has warned employees to be cautious when using chatbots like its own Bard, as they may make unwelcome code suggestions.
There is also the question of whether such data collection is legal.
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is facing a lawsuit over accusations that it illegally collected personal information from internet users and used that data to create its products.
OpenAI is also dealing with a copyright infringement and invasion of privacy lawsuit alleging that it used copyrighted books without permission to train its artificial intelligence systems.
The company allegedly illegally reproduced text from the books without obtaining the consent of the copyright owners and without compensating them.
Data collection seems to be a particularly troubling topic for Elon Musk.
Over the weekend, Twitter temporarily limited the number of tweets an account could read each day, allegedly to address “extreme levels” of data harvesting and “system manipulation” on the platform — though not everyone agreed that was the reason for the restriction.
Reddit has also faced a string of troubles since shutting down free access to its API to prevent data harvesting. The move caused more than 8,000 subreddits to shut down in protest.
