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

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

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

Yes. It’s almost silly that they had to say it. I bet lawyers were involved.

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

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

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

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