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Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to
train its AI models

It can use public data to create products like Bard and Cloud AI
capabilities, Google says.

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Mariella Moon
Mariella Moon|@mariella_moon|July 4, 2023 5:55 AM

Google has updated its privacy policy to state that it can use
publicly available data to help train its AI models. The tech giant
has changed the wording of its policy over the weekend and switched
"AI models" for "language models." It also stated that it could use
publicly available information to build not just features, but full
products like "Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities." By
updating its policy, it's letting people know and making it clear
that anything they publicly post online could be used to train Bard,
its future versions and any other generative AI product Google
develops.

The tech giant has highlighted the changes to its privacy policy on
its archive, but here's a copy of the pertinent part:

Google's privacy policy, which reads:
Google

Critics have been raising concerns about companies' use of
information posted online to train their large language models for
generative AI use. Recently, a proposed class action lawsuit was
filed against OpenAI, accusing it of scraping "massive amounts of
personal data from the internet," including "stolen private
information," to train its GPT models without prior consent. As
Search Engine Journal notes, we'll likely see plenty of similar
lawsuits in the future as more companies develop their own generative
AI products. 

Owners of websites that could be considered public squares in the
digital age have also taken steps to either prevent or profit from
the generative AI boom. Reddit has started charging for access to its
API, leading third-party clients to shut down over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Twitter put a restriction on how many tweets a user sees
per day to "address extreme levels of data scraping [and] system
manipulation."

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