Google updates its privacy policy to allow data scraping for AI training


Google has updated its privacy policy which now allows it to take any publicly available data and use it for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes.

The update to the Company’s privacy policy came out on July 1 and can be compared to previous versions of the policy via a link published on the site. Updates Page.

In the latest version, changes can be seen that include adding Google’s AI models, Bard and Cloud AI capabilities to services that it can train using “publicly available information online” or “other public sources”. Is.

Updated Google Policy Terms (in green) as of July 1, 2023. Source: Screenshot

The policy update shows that Google is now clarifying to the public and its users that anything publicly uploaded online can be used in its training processes with current and future AI systems developed by it Is.

This update from Google comes soon after OpenAI, the developer of the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, was accused of a class-action lawsuit in California for allegedly snatching personal information from users via the Internet.

It claimed that OpenAI used data from millions of comments on social media, blogs, Wikipedia and other personal information of users to train ChatGPT without first obtaining consent. The lawsuit concluded that this violated the copyright and privacy rights of millions of users on the Internet.

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Twitter’s recent change to the number of tweets users can access based on their account’s verification status has sparked rumors on the internet that it was partially imposed due to AI data scraping.

Twitter’s developers’ documentation notes that rate limits were put in place as a method of managing the amount of requests made to Twitter’s application program interface (API).

Recently Twitter owner and former CEO Elon Musk Tweeted About the platform “the data was being plundered so much that it was degrading service to normal users.”

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