AI Training Data: Just Another Excuse to Invade Your Privacy

Oh Look, Zoom’s Changed Their Data Policy Again

Clearly, some tech moguls are too busy stroking their egos and wallets to even bother remembering there’s a thing called privacy! Zoom, the latest contender in the ever-downward spiral of data privacy ethics, has been tweaking its data policy. You might think such amendments are aimed at safeguarding user’s privacy- ha! In your dreams! No, the agenda here is to source more training data to build their gargantuan AI models.

Is Your Privacy Worth Their AI Progress?

The outcries might as well be echoes in the wind, because it seems like the thirst for more robust and intricate AI models overshadows the respect for user privacy. The incessant drive to build the “best” AI has resulted in new pressure to extract as much training data from users as possible, and Zoom is just leading the pack in this shameless dig for data. Keep in mind that this data, aka your preferences, habits, conversations and more are being served up on a silver platter to their machine learning algorithms. Compliments of Zoom’s tweaked data policy, of course.

Hot Take on This Audacity

Let’s get real; in the current technology-ridden world, data is everything. But that doesn’t mean companies like Zoom should bulldoze users’ rights for their AI ambitions. But, of course, they would, ’cause who gives a damn about privacy when there’s money to be made, right? This relentless race to build top-notch AI models has bred an environment where disrespecting privacy is just a means to an end. And as for Zoom’s data policy tweak? Just another slap in the face for privacy in the name of ‘innovation’.

Original article:https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-generative-ai-companies-thirsty-for-your-data/