> The employees were told Google wanted to use people’s publicly available content in Google Docs, Google Sheets and related apps for an array of A.I. products.

> The employees were told Google wanted to use people’s publicly available content in Google Docs, Google Sheets and related apps for an array of A.I. products. The employees said they didn’t know if the company had previously trained A.I. on such data. > At the time, Google’s privacy policy said the company could use publicly available information only to “help train Google’s language models and build features like Google Translate.” > The privacy team wrote new terms so Google could tap the data for its “A.I. models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard and Cloud AI capabilities,” which was a wider collection of A.I. technologies. > “What is the end goal here?” one member of the privacy team asked in an internal message. “How broad are we going?” > The team was told specifically to release the new terms on the Fourth of July weekend, when people were typically focused on the holiday, the employees said. The revised policy debuted on July 1, at the start of the long weekend. Not sure if everyone read these sentences in the article.