The future of AI just got a bit more daunting. Google, the world’s premier search engine, has updated its privacy policy in order to have the ability to use any web content that may improve its AI technology.
Insiders have warned about the ramifications of AI with no cap on storing information and using it to mirror the work, feelings, and creations of human beings. And with few regulations, it seems that reality has already arrived.
“Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features, and technologies that benefit our users and the public,” the new Google policy reads. “For example, we use publicly available information to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities.”
Changes made to the policy include explicit use of the term “AI” as well as “Bard” and “Cloud AI,” according to digitaltrends.
Concerns around Google’s ability to use anything produced online to further enhance their AI tools have risen in the wake of the updated privacy policy. Plagiarism as well as false information have
been heavily debated downsides in the ever-growing conversation around ChatGPT and other AI models. Early ChatGPT models were criticized for filling in voids in its knowledge with falsified data, yet another reason why Google may need to better equip tools like Bard for more up-to-date processing.To contend with the changes, popular social media sites like Twitter and Reddit have closed access to their APIs, which once allowed apps to collect and store user data to improve their own consumer experiences, according to digitaltrends.
However, with growing concerns about the future of AI, major sites have cut off connections to the third- party tools that helped the efficiency of their own sites to have more control over how data is used.