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It might be time to update the mission statement. “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” https://a
by al_borland 9mo ago
It might be time to update the mission statement.
“Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”
https://about.google/company-info/ https://about.google/company-info/
- zb3 9mo ago* for us, advertisers and our AI models
- ern_ave 9mo agoMy guess is that AI training is the main issue. Data that you can prove was generated by humans is now exceedingly valuable ...and most of that comes from the days before LLMs. The situation is a bit like how steel manufactured before the nuclear age is valuable.
- adamnemecek 9mo agoBut why would people train on excerpts from Google Books when whole books can be downloaded on libgen and such?
- asdefghyk 9mo agocopyright reasons?
- direwolf20 9mo agoBoth are a copyright violation
- londons_explore 9mo agoGoogle books is much bigger than libgen.
- tick_tock_tick 9mo agoWhy it's almost certainly not by choice.