That was quick. Following on Sunday's ""In case there was any doubt, Google's privacy policy now explicitly states that it's going to suck up all your data to train its AI" (GOOG; EVIL)".
From CNN, July 11, 4:50 PM EDT:
Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent and violated copyright laws in order to train and develop its artificial intelligence products.
The proposed class action suit against Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind was filed in a federal court in California on Tuesday, and was brought by Clarkson Law Firm. The firm previously filed a similar suit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI last month. (OpenAI did not previously respond to a request for comment on the suit.)
The complaint alleges that Google “has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” and using this data to train its AI products, such as its chatbot Bard. The complaint also claims Google has taken “virtually the entirety of our digital footprint,” including “creative and copywritten works” to build its AI products.
Representatives for Google, Alphabet and DeepMind did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The complaint points to a recent update to Google’s privacy policy that explicitly states the company may use publicly accessible information to train its AI models and tools such as Bard....
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Related at The Verge:
Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
And if interested see also:
"How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)"
"How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you" (GOOG; FB; AMZN; MSFT; TWTR)
