Google Will Record Everything Users Post Online to Train Its AI Products

It's open season on public posts as Google announces its new privacy policy

Demis Hassabis, co-founder of artificial intelligence startup DeepMind, in Seoul, South Korea, on March 15, 2016. Hassabis now heads Google's AI unit, which recently merged its own AI lab, Google Brain, with DeepMind.Jeon Heon-Kyun-Pool/Getty Images

Google will record everything people post online in order to train its artificial intelligence products.

On July 1, Google amended its privacy policy to allow it to scrape comments that posters put on the internet, to help it to hone its AI tools.

The tech company’s plan to harvest and harness online public data is raising new privacy concerns.