A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI

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A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI
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A lawsuit claims Google took people's data without their knowledge or consent to train its AI products, including chatbot Bard.

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What's currently stopping a certain user by the name science_r0x_99 from going to your site and copying your data and posting it on his YouTube channel without giving credit? What's stopping the journalist Johnny Always Busy from copying that data and putting them in an article on the Daily Whatever with a tacky headline and again no credit?

I think you've just described the nature of copyright law, which is effective in some ways and ineffective in others.

That’s when the search engine usually came in and helped the original content be pushed above copycats. It’s actually very common what you said, but rarely were the content creators bothered by those that plagiarize the content. What Google seems to want to do is to stop behaving like a search engine altogether and start acting like the content thieves. In an ideal world, a new search engine/s would just push Google out and take its place. But when you’re a monopoly, that’s not really an option now is it?