Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen to opt out of training Google’s AI products, a vice-president of product at the company testified in court on Friday. That’s because Google’s controls for publishers to opt out of AI training covers work by Google DeepMind, the company’s AI lab, said Eli Collins, a DeepMind vice president. Other organisations at the company can further train the models for their products.
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