Google has updated its privacy policy to allow it to use any data that is publicly accessible for the training of artificial intelligence (AI).
A link included on the site’s update page allows users to compare the company’s most recent privacy policy change to earlier iterations. The update to the policy was made effective on July 1.
Data Scraping Enabled For AI Training
In the most recent version, modifications can be noticed that include the inclusion of Google’s AI models, Bard and Cloud AI capabilities, to the services it may train by using information that is freely available online or from other public sources.
According to the policy update, Google is now making it plain to the public and its users that everything posted publicly online may be utilized in Google’s training procedures for both the AI systems it is currently developing and those it will build in the future.
Google released this update shortly after OpenAI, the company behind the well-known AI chatbot ChatGPT, was named in a class-action lawsuit in California for allegedly using the internet to scrape users’ private information.
In order to train ChatGPT, the lawsuit alleges that OpenAI did so without previously obtaining consent, using data from millions of comments on social media, blogs, Wikipedia, and other websites. According to the lawsuit, this infringed millions of internet users’ copyrights and privacy rights.
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Twitter’s Data Theft And User Experience
There are reports spreading online that Twitter recently changed the number of tweets users can access based on their account verification status and that this adjustment was partially brought about by AI data scraping.
In order to control the volume of queries made to Twitter’s application program interface, rate restrictions were set, according to the developer’s documentation.
Twitter’s owner and former CEO, Elon Musk, recently complained on Twitter about the platform’s extensive data theft, which was deteriorating service for regular users.
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