2y ago

Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

gizmodo.com

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

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People who are alive can have a company steal their entire corpus without recompense, while the descendants of people who died decades ago can get still get paid for content created by their ancestors.
Right.
Glad that I can contribute to making the next Google Bard even dumber
- Yeah. Now the stupidity I post online has a purpose.
  Someday a T-800 will be closing in on a freedom fighter, but will have an intrusive thought interrupt it at a key vulnerable moment. And that intrusive thought will be some random pun we posted to DadJokes. You're welcome, future freedom fighters.
I, as the proprietor of my comments, condone Google AI scraping my publicly shared content for their own use, on the condition that they condone scraping of their publicly accessible content including YouTube videos. :P
- Google is going to continue boiling the frog until everyone using gmail, YT, drive, etc… is paying subscriptions for access to these services. It’s going to be interesting to see how much people are willing to pay to hold on to a gmail account they’ve been using for 20 years. I should buy Alphabet stock now.
I just kind of assumed that they, as well as anyone in the space was doing that already.
Whether that means that we all collectively have ownership over the outputs of these models if they're trained on content that we produced over the years is another thing. As someone who uses AI tools a fair bit I would be totally fine with generated content being public domain unless a threshold for human intervention is met.
That threshold is where the messy legal work lies.
- Would maybe be funny if a law were passed saying that you could only charge people for access to your AI content if you can prove that their own content wasn’t used to help train the AI…
- How their lawyers allowed this is insane
  I'm pretty sure Google's legal team knows a thing or two about copyright law. If they think this is fair use, then I'm inclined to believe it might be.
  
  It’s that they know that it’s more profitable to seek forgiveness than to ask permission.
  Get sued? Hah; okay see you in court in ten years. Meanwhile, profit. They can do it over and over and it will always be beneficial.
  There needs to be SEVERE sanctions for these violations. Like in the millions. That’s the only way they’d stop. They just don’t care at all.
  
  they just think they having tons of money to throw at a potential lawsuit means nobody will dare suing them.

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