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Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[โ€“] kenyard -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Stuka 4 points 1 year ago

Google has always been scraping data