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

  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think you understand? You’re talking about some “information must be free Star Trek future” that doesn’t exist. I’m talking about the exact legal framework that exists today.

    If I write a short story somewhere, why the fuck should someone be able to profit off of it because they pointed a bot at my site? How do you prevent giant corps from eventually squashing and owning everything?

    Just because something is publicly accessible doesn’t mean it’s public. I would maybe start here

    https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#protect

    If Google or Meta wants to make an LLM off my content, they can fucking have the decency to ask or pound sand. Adding a clause to some policy somewhere doesn’t auto-magically remove my legal rights

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If I write a short story somewhere,

      it’s a two way street - if you want to benefit from the free flow of information (your story being public) you should also bear the costs. I feel we’ve reached the end of this thread so lets just agree to disagree. Maybe my distaste for copyrighting information is too great here for you to convince me otherwise :)