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.

  • geekworking@lemmy.worldEnglish
    493·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t crawling and scraping content what Google and every other search engine has been doing since day one?

    • kenyard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      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

      • Cordoro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Indexing is using it. They’d use the content of the page to decide how best to index it for search.

    • kenyard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      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

    • kenyard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      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