Google updated its privacy policy in which it stated that it can use publicly available data to help train its artificial intelligence models
The tech giant changed the wording of its policy over the weekend and switched “AI models” for “language models”
Google updated the changes on its privacy policy archive page
With the new policy, Google is informing people that anything they publicly post online can be used to train Bard, future versions and other generative AI products it develops
Critics have expressed concerns about companies’ use of publicly available information to train large language models for generative AI use
Last month, the Sam Altman-run OpenAI sued in a class-action lawsuit in the US for allegedly stealing data from the public to train its AI chatbot ChatGPT
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, alleged that OpenAI used “stolen data to train and develop” its products including ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4, DALL-E, and VALL-E
Google is on a mission to beat Microsoft-backed ChatGPT