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Google - The overlord 🦹

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July 05, 2023

Good morning and welcome to AI Joe, the newsletter that’s finer than a 2005 Bordeaux Pinot Noir.

This is the midweek mini edition where we provide a top story and a prompt for ChatGPT.

Here’s what’s on today’s agenda

  • For Google, nothing is off limits ⛔️ 

  • DocGPT 🩺 

Google will use anything posted online to train AI 🏋️ 

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Google used the long weekend as an opportunity to drop a controversial update to its terms of service.

“Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public. 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.”

Experts explain that this clause is particularly unusual because it states that Google uses “publicly available information” rather than specifically calling out data provided to Google. This means that anything you’ve made publicly available online, from a blog post to a restaurant review to a Tweet from a public Twitter account, is likely being used in some small way to refine Google AI products.

So what’s it mean for you?

If you’re not worried about AI tools, it doesn’t mean a whole lot. It means that there will be larger and larger data sets and AI will become better as time goes on.

If you are concerned about your data being used, here are some of the things you can do:

  • Stop posting places that aren’t gated by some sort of login

  • Make your social media accounts private

  • Use services like DuckDuckGo (search) or Brave (browser)

Joe’s Takeaway: While I’m not extremely concerned about Google scraping my content for AI training, I am fascinated to learn what the legal ramifications will be. This is something that copyright law was not built for. We’ll likely see years of court cases and new laws passed before we get any answers.

Is it already too late? Will the AI models be sufficiently powerful before this is able to make its way through the courts?

Only time will (and future editions of AI Joe) will tell!

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