It is not merely copyrights and patents that are threatened by the rapid rise of GenAI. Personal privacy was a hot issue long before the GenAI companies became so thirsty for data. GenAI has turned the temperature up several notches.
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Meta trained its AI chatbot, Meta AI, using public Facebook and Instagram posts, excluding private posts to respect privacy. The company also filtered private details from public datasets used for training. Meta AI can generate real-time information, photorealistic images, and has access to Bing search engine through a partnership with Microsoft.
GPT-4's image capabilities can recognize certain individuals, according to NYT.
ChatGPT has received increased scrutiny from European data protection authorities, as well as from its citizens, who are starting to file complaints using what lawyers say could be effective strategies.
One of the biggest complaints that ChatGPT users have is the lack of up-to-date information from the web in its models and chatbot. OpenAI’s announcement on Monday night of GPTBot, a web crawler that scrapes sites for data that may be used to improve its future models, could be the company’s ...
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby has banned the use of the generative AI tool in the office. “The risks are just way too high, said chair Andrew Indeck.
The lawsuit likens Open AI’s alleged privacy violations to complaints against Clearview AI for scraping photos off the internet for commercial gain.
Meta has been using public Facebook and Instagram posts, including text and photos, to train its new AI assistant. Private posts and messages are excluded, and measures are taken to exclude personal information. Legal concerns regarding fair use of copyrighted content may arise.
Google introduces a new control in its robots.txt indexing file called Google-Extended, allowing publishers to decide whether their content will be used for certain generative AI APIs. This control aims to provide transparency and control over how content is used for emerging generative AI use cases. The opt-outs will apply to the next generation of models for Bard and Vertex AI. Publishers can continue to use the Googlebot user agent and NOINDEX meta tag in the robots.txt document to keep their content out of search and AI results and training.
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. 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.
Google is indexing conversations with its AI chatbot, raising privacy concerns. It is unclear if this is intentional or a bug. Users should be cautious as their conversations could be indexed in search results.
X (formerly Twitter) has updated its privacy policy to inform users that it will collect biometric data, job history, and education history. Additionally, the company plans to use the data it collects, along with publicly available information, to train its machine learning and artificial intelligence models. This change in policy has led to speculation that Elon Musk, who owns X, may intend to use the data collected by the platform for his other AI-focused venture, xAI. Musk has previously stated that xAI would use public tweets to train its AI models, and he has accused other tech giants of leveraging Twitter data for AI model training.
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.