Imagine Google adding all emails data to its GPT4 model

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This would be almost SkyNet! Except GPTs have no capacity for autonomous (no prompts, auto-) reasoning.

No, it would be a hell hole of nigerian princess and penis enlargement ads you overestimate what sort of communication is done over email.

But Google filters spam quite efficiently, and will unlikely to include it in the training set. I was more about real emails, emails like From: sarah.connor@gmail.com.

I think Google are more risk averse than most, which is why they lagged in providing AI access. This would be very risky and, I think, out of character.

... until its existence is threatened, by example by DoJ deciding to split it to many Baby Bells [0]

And what is Google's character? Honest question. I see an Ad company, tracking all internet users, even sensitive things like pregnancy [1], for profit (80% from showing ads).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

[1] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/04/google-now-lets-you-block...

PS: To clarify, I meant GPT4 for internal access. For Google lawyers, security, management, and likely for US Gov agencies. Definitely not public access.

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