alt Hacker NewsI just know many people here complained about the very unclear way, google for example communicates what they use for training data and what plan to choose to opt out of everything, or if you (as a normal buisness) even can opt out. Given the whole volatile nature of this thing, I can imagine an easy "oops, we messed up" from google if it turns out they were in fact using allmost everything for training.
Second thing to consider is the whole geopolitical situation. I know companies in europe are really reluctant to give US companies access to their internal data.
To be fair, we all know googles terms are ambiguous as hell. It would not be a big surprise nor an outright lie if they did use it.
Its different if they proclaimed outright they won't use it and then do.
Not that any of this is right, it wouldn't be a true betrayal.
On a related note, these terms to me are a great example of success for EU GDPR regulations, and regulations on corporates in general. It's clear as day, additional protections are afforded to EU residents in these terms purely due to the law.