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AI is ruining the internet (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not so worried about Zoom adding fancy autocomplete (“training our models”) as I am with them licensing it out. This is what section 10.4 says before the caveat:

You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content, including AI and ML training and testing.

I don’t think that extra caveat even addresses licensing meeting content to third parties for training A.I.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A bit later in the article also addresses this:

That consent, [Zoom Chief Product Officer Smita] Hashim closed, still won’t allow third parties to train an AI off your calls: “And even if you chose to share your data, it will not be used for training of any third-party models.”

However, glancing through the ToS I don't see where Zoom prohibits third-party AI training, only prohibiting training their own models. On the other hand, data for training LLMs is apparently the modern gold-rush and it's feasible that Zoom wouldn't want that data to be accessed by any potential competitors.