Google Says It Will Scour And Siphon The Entire Internet To Train Its AI

The quiet change in policy was discovered by tech outlet Gizmodo, which wrote, ‘If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.’

The new policy now explicitly states:

Research and development: 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.

Google archives their previous privacy policies; and the old one said the data would be used “for language models,” rather than “AI models” which is what it says now, ‘and where the older policy just mentioned Google Translate, Bard and Cloud AI now make an appearance,’ Gizmodo noted.

Gizmodo added their thoughts on the matter:

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This is an unusual clause for a privacy policy. Typically, these policies describe ways that a business uses the information that you post on the company’s own services. Here, it seems Google reserves the right to harvest and harness data posted on any part of the public web, as if the whole internet is the company’s own AI playground. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The practice raises new and interesting privacy questions. People generally understand that public posts are public. But today, you need a new mental model of what it means to write something online. It’s no longer a question of who can see the information, but how it could be used. There’s a good chance that Bard and ChatGPT ingested your long forgotten blog posts or 15-year-old restaurant reviews. As you read this, the chatbots could be regurgitating some humonculoid version of your words in ways that are impossible to predict and difficult to understand.

Lately, web scraping is Elon Musk’s favorite boogieman. Musk blamed a number of recent Twitter disasters on the company’s need to stop others from pulling data off his site, even when the issues seem unrelated. […] Twitter limited the number of tweets users were allowed to look at per day, rendering the service almost unusable. Musk said it was a necessary response to “data scraping” and “system manipulation.” However, most IT experts agreed the rate limiting was more likely a crisis response to technical problems born of mismanagement, incompetence, or both. Twitter did not answer Gizmodo’s questions on the subject.

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Since then a class-action lawsuit has been filed against the tech mammoth, alleging Google of “stealing everything ever shared on the internet,” including copyrighted works and millions of people’s personal data.

Google does not own the internet, it does not own our creative works, it does not own our expressions of our personhood, pictures of our families and children, or anything else simply because we share it online.

We have only recently learned that Google has been taking everything ever created or shared online by millions of internet users, including all our personal information, creative works, and professional works, and using all of that data to train and build commercial AI Products.

Google harvested this data in secret for years, without providing notice to anyone, much less with anyone’s consent.

Ryan Clarkson, managing partner of Clarkson, said in a press release

Halimah DeLaine Prado, Google’s General Counsel, responded to the complaint, stating:

We’ve been clear for years that we use data from public sources — like information published to the open web and public datasets– to train the AI models behind services like Google Translate, responsibly and in line with our AI Principles. American law supports using public information to create new beneficial uses, and we look forward to refuting these baseless claims.

SEE: Scientists Are Now Merging AI With Living Creatures Called “Organoid Intelligence”

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Daniel 12:4

So why would Google do this in the first place? My initial thought is for censorship. Google needs to train up the AI to learn everything that’s out there, so it can learn all the quirks, mannerisms, slang, trends, intentions, beliefs, motives, and so on; so when it comes time to throttle people to use the internet, Google (and others) will have this ‘perfect’ system tethered to the social credit scores, and internet behavioral scores.

SEE: The DQ Institute: The Social Credit Score To Become A Global Citizen To Use The Internet

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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