Recent updates to Google's Privacy Policy have raised concerns about the use of personal content for AI training. According to the revised terms and conditions, Google will now use "publicly available information" to train their in-house AI models in addition to other products. This has left some observers worried about the extent to which their personal information will be used by the tech company.
The relevant section reads:
"In some circumstances, Google also collects information about you from publicly accessible sources. For example, if your name appears in your local newspaper, Google’s search engine may index that article and display it to other people if they search for your name. We may also collect information about you from trusted partners, such as directory services who provide us with business information to be displayed on Google’s services, marketing partners who provide us with information about potential customers of our business services, and security partners who provide us with information to protect against abuse. We also receive information from advertising partners to provide advertising and research services on their behalf."
An additional extract from the Publicly accessible sources section reads:
"For example, we may collect information that’s publicly available online or from other public sources to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features, like Google Translate, Bard and Cloud AI capabilities. Or, if your business’ information appears on a website, we may index and display it on Google services."
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