Teleconferencing application Zoom issued a statement: improve data transparency, unauthorized will not be used for training AI

CTOnews.com August 8 news, teleconferencing application Zoom recently issued a press release, saying that it has updated its terms of service in March this year to make it clear that it will not use users' data to train generative AI without the user's permission.

Smita Hashim, chief product officer of Zoom, stressed in a press release that users have full control over their content and need their permission before they can be used in value-added services such as training conference recording and spam detection.

CTOnews.com hereby translates some of the Hashim press releases as follows:

We want to increase the transparency of the data so that users know exactly what data we use to train AI, so as to provide a better user experience for everyone on our platform.

By increasing transparency, we let users know the purpose of using data to train AI, such as when usage is high in a particular area, etc., so that we can better balance the load in the data center and provide better video quality to all users.

Hashim said that the optional AI function was provided in the summary of the meeting, and Zoom stressed that the data was only used to improve the service, and that the relevant data would not be used to train third-party AI models.