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.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Peanut@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      But how else could Disney afford to own everyone else’s rights and properties? Why not think about the little guy! (Mickey mouse is little, right?)

      That being said, I find it weird people are going after training data for llm’s after completely ignoring the models built specifically to compete with and take advantage of people’s unconscious habits and lifestyles.

      AI in general will be very important to comfortably survive the near future as a species. Data is an important part of that.

      we absolutely need to do something about the megacorps funneling every new gain as a society into increasing the already absurd wealth divide. The technology is good. The general web scraping isn’t bad if the tool is not specifically evil in function. We just need to as a global community demand that the technology be used to benefit everyone equally as it continues to be developed.

    • Zapp@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Rentlar@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Thomas Gray@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.