Google Updates Privacy Policies for AI Training

Google has updated its privacy policies to permit the use of publicly accessible data for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes.

The company’s privacy policy was updated on July 1, and previous versions can be viewed via a link on the site’s update page.

In the most recent version, Google’s AI models, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities have been added to the services it can train using “information that is publicly available online” or “other public sources.”

The policy update implies that Google is now making it clear to the public and its users that anything uploaded publicly online may be used in its training processes for current and future AI systems.

This update from Google comes shortly after the developer of the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, OpenAI, was charged in a California class-action lawsuit for allegedly scraping private information from internet users.

It was alleged that OpenAI trained ChatGPT using data from millions of user comments on social media, blogs, Wikipedia, and other personal information without their consent.

The lawsuit concluded that millions of Internet users’ copyright and privacy rights were violated.

The internet is rife with rumors that Twitter’s recent change in the number of tweets users can access depends on their account verification status, partly because of AI data scraping.

According to the documentation provided by Twitter’s developers, rate limits were implemented to manage the volume of requests made to Twitter’s application programming interface (API).

The owner and former CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk, recently tweeted that the platform’s “extensive data theft was degrading service for regular users.”