Zoom Revises Terms After Changes Spark Fears of AI Learning From Video Chats

From PC Mag: A day after controversy erupted over months-ago revisions to Zoom’s terms of service that evoked fears of their video chats being harvested for AI training, the company raised its virtual hand to say that it would never do such a thing without permission.

The new text, added in March as part of a sweeping rewrite of the video-conferencing app’s terms(Opens in a new window), appeared to give Zoom the right to train AI systems on the data and content of calls.

A Sunday post on the web-developer blog Stack Diary called out two parts in particular. Section 10.2 allowed Zoom to use diagnostics data for purposes including “machine learning or artificial intelligence (including for the purposes of training and tuning of algorithms and models).”

Another, section 10.4, reserved similar rights to customer-generated content for a list of uses that included “machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing.”

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