I mean they never stopped "training on your email"... I'm sure they started of (back when they may not have had the code/compute to trawl and model from the bod

I mean they never stopped "training on your email"... I'm sure they started of (back when they may not have had the code/compute to trawl and model from the body of the email), it was just the metadata they used to help build data for targeted marketing. And are still absolutely using metadata... But yeah, in this specific case, it is way less nefarious. Just one, or both, of Google, and the scientist, selling a new AI product, with a sensationalist, unrealistic story, in a huge, publicly funded, "serious" news outlet. At least when the NYtimes drools down it's chin at some AI vaporware, they may be getting a huge advertising buy, or someone there owns a lot of stock in the company... BBC can't even hide behind "well that's capitalism baby". I will say the prime minister and his red thatcherites have been obsessed with becoming a player in the AI industry... If you want a conspiracy theory i think is more likely haha.