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Come tell our cloud-based AI everything about your life, your hopes, your dreams, your anxieties, your fears.... Trust that we won't misuse it ... From https:/

Come tell our cloud-based AI everything about your life, your hopes, your dreams, your anxieties, your fears.... Trust that we won't misuse it ... From https://pi.ai/policy https://pi.ai/policy : > Research and development. We may use personal information for research and development purposes where it is in our legitimate business interests, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business.

Terretta 3y ago
> “…where it is in our legitimate business interests, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business.” We learned from GDPR that PII data-sale-supported / ad-supported businesses (most "free" offerings to consumers, which get revenue from the ad side) consider the collection of PII “essential”, even publicly classifying their advertising cookies as essential when they are ad supported. And so far, that's working out for them. By the same logic, this privacy disclosure implies that to develop their business (increase revenue) or improve their business, e.g., improve its value to shareholders, they may use your personal information. It's incredibly difficult to find a privacy disclosure that says "we just don't" or scopes use to differential privacy and federated learning. EDIT TO ADD: Elsewhere in https://pi.ai/policy#privacy-snapshot https://pi.ai/policy#privacy-snapshot they expand on this: “We may use this anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services and promote our business.” Now we've expanded legitimate to lawful (depending on semantics, lots of illegitimate things may be nevertheless lawful), and expanded improve to promote. Along with expressly disclosing inference to derive personalization profiles from sensitive information, this language is set up to enable ad tech and more.
bionhoward 3y ago
Ah, I must join the dogpile here, "come pay us to train our AI, but you aren't allowed to use our AI to make competing products" (with AI, one of the most broadly competitive technologies in history) > Reverse Engineering: You may not use or attempt to use our Services to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to obtain the underlying models, algorithms, or source code of the Services. COOL > You may not engage in this or any other activities with regards to our Services to build products that may be competitive with Inflection AI. UNCOOL!

Terretta 3y ago

> “…where it is in our legitimate business interests, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business.” We learned from GDPR that PII data-sale-supported / ad-supported businesses (most "free" offerings to consumers, which get revenue from the ad side) consider the collection of PII “essential”, even publicly classifying their advertising cookies as essential when they are ad supported. And so far, that's working out for them. By the same logic, this privacy disclosure implies that to develop their business (increase revenue) or improve their business, e.g., improve its value to shareholders, they may use your personal information. It's incredibly difficult to find a privacy disclosure that says "we just don't" or scopes use to differential privacy and federated learning. EDIT TO ADD: Elsewhere in https://pi.ai/policy#privacy-snapshot https://pi.ai/policy#privacy-snapshot they expand on this: “We may use this anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services and promote our business.” Now we've expanded legitimate to lawful (depending on semantics, lots of illegitimate things may be nevertheless lawful), and expanded improve to promote. Along with expressly disclosing inference to derive personalization profiles from sensitive information, this language is set up to enable ad tech and more.

bionhoward 3y ago

Ah, I must join the dogpile here, "come pay us to train our AI, but you aren't allowed to use our AI to make competing products" (with AI, one of the most broadly competitive technologies in history) > Reverse Engineering: You may not use or attempt to use our Services to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to obtain the underlying models, algorithms, or source code of the Services. COOL > You may not engage in this or any other activities with regards to our Services to build products that may be competitive with Inflection AI. UNCOOL!