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.

  • MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is absolutely not the case and absolutely illegal. How their lawyers allowed this is insane and some government body needs to smack down Google with a real penalty. Even scraping AGPL’ed code would technically require them to AGPL their entire AI as it should be seen as a derived work in the courts. How could an AI scrape and utilize something, creating works based on the code taken, and not be seen as derived? It’s insane.

    • abhibeckert@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • AndrewZabar@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • ilmagico@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        they just think they having tons of money to throw at a potential lawsuit means nobody will dare suing them.