July 4th 2023.
The fast-paced world of AI chatbot development has been in the spotlight recently, as tech giants like Google and Microsoft strive to create the best AI models. AI chatbots like Google's Bard, Open AI's ChatGPT, and other generative AI systems create content using large amounts of data scraped from the internet.
Google recently updated its privacy policy over the weekend, which has sparked concerns about a possible dystopian future. The update enables the company to collect and analyze information people share online to train its AI models. They also plan to use this data to improve existing services and develop new AI-powered products.
The part of Google's policy that has been updated mentions collecting data from publicly accessible sources, such as public posts on social media platforms. Previously, this policy only mentioned using the data to train the language and features on Google Translate. The company has now swapped 'language' for 'AI models' and added that it will use the data to build additional products like 'Bard and Cloud AI capabilities'.
The tech giant also announced that it has highlighted the changes to the privacy policy on its archive, which can be viewed by the public.
This change is not only concerning Google, but other AI chatbot companies as well. Social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit are taking action to limit the amount of data that can be collected. For example, Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that can be read in order to make it harder for AI companies to collect and manipulate data. Elon Musk has blamed OpenAI, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard for attempting to harvest data for training their large language models.
Similarly, Reddit has started charging for access to its API, so AI companies can't use it as a free teaching aid for its language models. OpenAI is even being sued for allegedly scraping 'massive amounts of personal data from the internet'. In the same week, two US authors sued OpenAI for misusing their work to 'train' its viral AI chatbot, ChatGPT.
These developments have left many people wondering how AI search is different from Bard, and whether a chatbot can write the King's coronation speech. Hopefully, these questions will be answered soon.
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