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.
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects.
This is absolutely not the case and absolutely illegal. How their lawyers allowed this is insane and some government body needs to smack down Google with a real penalty. Even scraping AGPL'ed code would technically require them to AGPL their entire AI as it should be seen as a derived work in the courts. How could an AI scrape and utilize something, creating works based on the code taken, and not be seen as derived? It's insane.
I'm pretty sure Google's legal team knows a thing or two about copyright law. If they think this is fair use, then I'm inclined to believe it might be.