OpenAI and ChatGPT may be in serious trouble as Google is gearing to leverage its formidable data reserves to power its artificial intelligence (AI) ******. On July 1, 2023, Google updated its Privacy Terms to reflect how they use public data and which services benefit from them.
Here’s the relevant updated section highlighting the changes made:
“For example, we may collect information that’s publicly available online or from other public sources to help train Google’s language AI ****** and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities. Or, if your business’s information appears on a website, we may index and display it on Google services.”
Previously, Google only scraped publicly-available data to train its language ******, such as Google Translate. However, as competition in the AI space heats up, Google is using another ace up in its sleeve: its dominant search market position and the wealth of data that comes with it.
With the recent update, Google can now use any information you post in the public domain.
Aside from the products mentioned above, other Google AI products that may benefit from this change include:
- Search Generative Experience (SGE): Google’s take on a chat-based search interface that uses real-time information to streamline the search experience.
- Codey, Imagen, Embeddings API and RLHF: Available in Vertex AI through Google’s trusted tester program.
- PaLM 2: A large language model that powers Duet AI for Google Cloud.
- Google Shopping: Use diffusion-based AI to generate realistic images.
This raises an issue that plagues AI ****** today: privacy.
OpenAI already had its fair share of government scrutiny concerning privacy. We expect Google to grapple with these issues as more people realize and scrutinize the implications of these privacy changes.
While this helps Google create better products, AI skeptics and watchdogs are on the lookout for potential violations of privacy and consumer protection.
Read Google’s full Privacy Policy here.
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