Jono BarelJul 4, 2023
Jono

Google essentially laying unlimited claim to “everything out there” is pushing the boundaries of corporations’ excessive overreach in every aspect of our lives in ways we can’t control.
Regulators need to re-examine our relationship with corps and their liability.

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

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

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

Gizmodo
Jul 4, 2023 at 2:31pmWeb
Show threadDubi is here Jul 4, 2023
@jono On the one hand, yes, on the other, how is this different from what crawling and caching has been since Google started? We never complained when everything we put on the web was appropriated by Google for their page rank -- we celebrated it!
Show threadJonoJul 4, 2023

@Dubikan the difference is that Google was doing that in order to solve the discovery problem. They weren’t locking it down, they were paving the road road for you to go the content.

Now they’re doing the opposite, they’re building a system to keep you inside their ecosystem by harvesting everything out there.

They’ve been doing this for years, but to state in their PRIVACY policy that they retain the right to “everything” is kinda arrogant.