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      11 months ago

      I wonder if Google’s unlimited legal budget plays a role. Not a lawyer, so probably way off here…

      But, for example, reddit’s success in part depends on Google ingesting their data — reddit shows up in Google searches all the time, which can only happen if Google uses reddit’s content. So reddit telling Google “you can’t use our content” doesn’t work, and they need to say something like, “you can use our content for search results but you can’t consume it as training data.”

      This is a pretty straightforward statement/request/demand, but one could imagine Google lawyers maliciously complying and throwing their hands up dramatically, claiming “well we use some amount of AI in our search results, so if we can’t use your content for AI training then we can’t risk using it for search results.” Which would, I imagine, really, really hurt reddit (no Google results would be catastrophic I suspect).

      So, perhaps the “low” 60M figure is just Google using their leverage.

      Or not. As a random person on the Internet, I can say I’m probably not contributing anything meaningful here…

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      11 months ago

      How quickly you forget that half of it is just “I also choose this guy’s wife” and “the narwhal bacon’s at midnight”

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      Considering it’s all full of Nazis and bots, and if you get to filter all of them out you’re left with reposts and low quality memes followed by comments that represent the hostile side of each of us… I’d say anything over $5 is a good deal for spez.

      Now, I hope Google uses this data exclusively for detecting inappropriate answers. Can you imagine it giving answers based on the endless threads i of " I’m not your mate, bro; I’m not your bro, dude…".