Google owns ‘whole internet’ now, uses it to train AI models

Google owns any and all the information available on the internet.

The most recent revision to Google's privacy policy gives the company permission to scrape the internet in search of any information that would help it develop and improve its AI systems.

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

"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."

According to Gizmodo, the privacy policy has been changed from "for language models" to "for AI models." In addition, the policy now mentions Bard and Cloud AI in addition to Google Translate, for which data was previously gathered.

The privacy policy, which was modified over the weekend, seems especially foreboding because it says that Google is free to utilise any information you provide online to build its AI models.

The language used above appears to apply to those outside of the Google ecosystem in some way, and it is written in such a way that the brand could obtain information from any area of the internet.

Gizmodo also pointed out that Google might use this new approach to gather outdated but still human-generated content, like long-forgotten blog entries or reviews, in order to maintain an understanding of how human text and speech are produced and disseminated. However, it is still unclear exactly how Google will make use of the information it gathers.