The CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, said that he had “a lot of concerns about confidentiality” if Google was forced to sell some of the data it collects to create its research results.
Google and the Ministry of Justice are in the midst of a three -week legal battle in Washington, DC, which could lead to a massive upheaval in the technology giant of $ 1.8 billion.
Pichai testified Wednesday in the case of Google monopoly. The American district judge Amit Mehta judged in August that Google’s online research activities violated US Antitrust law and will finally determine the fate of Google.
One of the remedies that the Ministry of Justice is looking for would force Google to sell its Chrome browser and to share some of the data.
Asked about how the remedy proposed by the government would affect Google’s activities, Pichai warned the impact on people’s research data.
“People are looking for Google in their most vulnerable moments, and there does not seem to be privacy protection,” he said, calling the proposal on data sharing “so far, therefore extraordinary.
“All years of R and D and all the years we have put in the product, it looks like a full divestment,” he said.
Earlier, Pichai was asked about the threat of AI chatbots in Google research. The Ministry of Justice argued that the company could use its AI products to strengthen its domination in research using its powerful research data.
The point of Pichai was that Google’s domination is by no means assured. He said that the field was wide open in Gen Ai, with the Openai GPT cat in the main position, more participants than it can follow.
“In terms of GEMINI CONSUMER application, we have made a lot of progress. This is a popular application,” he said. “I am satisfied with progress, but we have a big gap between us and the market leader in space.”
This story develops and will be updated.
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