Google can train search AI with web content even with opt-out

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-03/google-can-train-search-ai-with-web-content-even-after-opt-out

by gotmedium • 1 year ago

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linusg789• 1 year ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/google-can-train-searc...

riedel• 1 year ago

https://archive.is/1l8SS

caseyy3• 1 year ago

I wonder if society (and by extension, our laws) will ever again make a meaningful effort to penalize liars, manipulators, and thieves. I worry the answer is no.

kordlessagain2• 1 year ago

Assholes will rationalize any way they can, and a lot of the population is "set up" to hear these excuses and evaluate them. So, for a small percentage of assholes, they will have such good excuses nobody holds them accountable.

Funny how calling out well-dressed manipulation bothers some people more than the manipulation itself. Almost like some folks need the illusion to stay intact.

eftychis• 1 year ago

You hit the nail in the head with your last sentence. It is a psychological defense mechanism.

People don't want to be associated with fraud and would do any mind tricks to explain things away, while knowing the illusion is there.

SilasX2• 1 year ago

Yes, that's an important thing to worry about. I'm just not sure that "learning from a website's content how to create other intellectual works without explicit permission from the owner to do so" counts as lying, manipulating, or stealing.

caseyy3• 1 year ago

Please don't straw-man. The first two paragraphs of the article explain what is happening. There is explicit refusal.

kordlessagain2• 1 year ago

And, just because things are moving so fast, agentic frameworks crawl in real time while helping the user. It's not just about training models, which everyone gets stuck on talking about. I think the agentic framework crawls will probably get worse by a lot.

hulitu• 1 year ago

Google Can Train Search AI with Web Content Even with Opt-Out

Opt out for Google, Facebook and Microsoft is Opt in.

Google can train search AI with web content even with opt-out

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