An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.

An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.

Get in line

I believe them…

This is why I’ve never trusted google.

They’re very nice people, but everybody is decent until they need to hit quarterly earnings.

@renrenPDX@lemmy.world
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Why is AI scraping not respecting robots.txt? It wasn’t ok early internet days, so why is it ok now? People are complaining about being overloaded by scrapers like it’s the 90’s

Isn’t crawling and scraping content what Google and every other search engine has been doing since day one?

@kenyard@lemmy.world
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I’m guessing previously they indexed the data and didn’t actually use it. Nowadays they’re using it directly themselves. You could argue previously they were making money from Google ads but google was always ad free I believe. Results had sponsors for sure but that wasn’t linked to your data

@Stuka@lemmy.world
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Google has always been scraping data

@kenyard@lemmy.world
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I’m guessing previously they indexed the data and didn’t actually use it. Nowadays they’re using it directly themselves. You could argue previously they were making money from Google ads but google was always ad free I believe. Results had sponsors for sure but that wasn’t linked to your data

@kenyard@lemmy.world
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I’m guessing previously they indexed the data and didn’t actually use it. Nowadays they’re using it directly themselves. You could argue previously they were making money from Google ads but google was always ad free I believe. Results had sponsors for sure but that wasn’t linked to your data

@Cordoro@lemmy.world
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Indexing is using it. They’d use the content of the page to decide how best to index it for search.

The most realistic part of the Marvel movies was Ultron dipping into the internet for 4 seconds, then deciding humans need to be extinct.

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