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That and the fact they can self-fund the whole AI venture and don't require outside investment.
by dana321 11mo ago
That and the fact they can self-fund the whole AI venture and don't require outside investment.
- jsheard 11mo agoThat and they were harvesting data way before it was cool, and now that it is cool, they're in a privileged position since almost no-one can afford to block GoogleBot. They do voluntarily offer a way to signal that the data GoogleBot sees is not to be used for training, for now, and assuming you take them at their word, but AFAIK there is no way to stop them doing RAG on your content without destroying your SEO in the process.
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- lazyfanatic42 11mo agoWow, they really got folks by the short hairs if that is true...
- boredatoms 11mo agoDo people still get organic search traffic from google?
- smj-edison 11mo agoBut they also collect the data without causing denial of service, and respect robots.txt, which is more than you can say of most LLM scrapers...
- mrbungie 11mo agoThe most fun fact about all the developments post-ChatGPT is that people apparently forgot that Google was doing actual AI before AI meant (only) ML and GenAI/LLMs, and they were top players at it. Arguably main OpenAI raison d'être was to be a counterweight to that pre-2023 Google AI dominance. But I'd also argue that OpenAI lost its way.
- lvl155 11mo agoAnd they forgot to pay those people so most of them left.
- OccamsMirror 11mo agoTo be fair, they weren't increasing Ads revenue.