OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
    • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 个月前

      Actually Google tries their hardest NOT to point you to content. They scrape the data from sites and display it directly in the search results so that you don’t need to visit any site except Google. Their new AI answers that they are pushing on users are just another step in that direction.

      • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 个月前

        Which is why Google is no longer my default browser. I’d be quite happy if it reverted Back to don’t be evil or just ceased ro exist

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      3 个月前

      Literally every page Google shows you, where it also shows you those ads it makes money from, is Google’s content and it is derived from the data it gets scraping the web.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        3 个月前

        What the fuck are you even talking about? Making a list of website identifiers (names and URLs) so that people can go to them isn’t even slightly the same as making a derived work of the websites’ contents.

            • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              3 个月前

              Google has to scrape and process the entire webpage and analyze the content to figure out which links to provide you. The end result of them presenting you with those links is from them copying and processing all your site’s data, including when you aren’t listed in the search results.