Today's rumors that Robotaxi Company Waymo can use data from internal chambers of vehicles to teach AI and the sale of target advertising to riders. Nevertheless, the company tried to suppress fears, insisting that it would not be aimed at advertising for passengers.
The situation arose after the researcher and engineer Jane Manchun Wong The unsuccessful version of the Privacy Policy of Waymo, which suggested that Robotaxi may begin to use data from its vehicles to teach generative AI. The policy of politics has a language that allows customers to abandon Waymo “using your personal information (including the data of the internal chamber related to your personality) for GAI training”. The discovery of Wong also suggested that Waymo can use these personnel to sell personalized advertising to riders.
Later on the same day Grave Comments on this unrelated confidentiality policy from the representative of Waymo Julia Ilina. “Waymo systems (machine learning) are not intended to use these data to identify individuals, and there are no plans to use this data for target advertising,” she said. Ilina said that the version found by Vong included “the text of the aggregates, which does not accurately reflect the purpose of the function,” and noted that this function was still under development. This “will not make any changes in the Privacy Policy of Waymo, but rather offer riders the opportunity to refuse to collect data for educational purposes ML.”
I hope Waymo adheres to these statements. Privacy and safety are huge problems, since AI companies are trying to feed their models as much information as possible. Waymo belongs to Alphabet, and Google develops its own assistant artificial intelligence, as well as other projects of artificial intelligence with its separation.