WPS, a data processing brand name run by Chinese software application business Kingsoft, asked forgiveness after being implicated of utilizing personal files to train AI, in an offense of users’ personal privacy. The debate comes from public interest in a WPS personal privacy policy stating that the business “will utilize product users willingly publish as the base product for AI training after desensitization,” leading the tech brand name to provide a declaration on Weibo at the weekend stating it had actually eliminated the deceptive expression in the upgraded policy after online criticism. “User documents will not be utilized for any AI training functions or in any circumstance without the user’s permission,” it stressed.[[WPS, in Chinese]
WPS apologizes for seeming to let private documents be used for AI training
