The artist formerly known as Twitter has been in some hot water this week after Bloomberg found that the social media site would start collecting biometric details, along with job and education data, from users. Now, a newly-released privacy policy indicates that X will use this data, along with other collected personal information, to train AI models, as originally spotted by Alex Ivanovs at Stackdiary. The privacy policy clearly indicates that the company plans to use information it collects, along with any publicly available data, to help train machine learning algorithms. "We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy," the privacy posting reads. Musk has confirmed the change, but notes that only publicly available information will be collected, and not "DMs or anything private."

Google has updated its privacy policy to state that it can use publicly available data to help train its AI models. The tech giant has changed the wording of its policy over the weekend and switched "AI models" for "language models." It also stated that it could use publicly available information to build not just features, but full products like "Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities." By updating its policy, it's letting people know and making it clear that anything they publicly post online could be used to train Bard, its future versions and any other generative AI product Google develops. The tech giant has highlighted the changes to its privacy policy on its archive, but here's a copy of the pertinent part: Critics have been raising concerns about companies' use of information posted online to train their large language models for generative AI use.