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Wow - DOJ filing that would require Google to allow site owners to easily opt out from being used as training data in Google’s AI products/LLMs/AIO.
And *Google searchers must be able to opt out of AIO as well.* 🔥
This is a cute video buuuut... kinda scary it's AI generated. I've said for a while now that we need some sort of regulation over AI. Not only is it helping with content theft and reducing creativity, but soon, we won't be able to believe anything we see on the internet! 🙈
Is there a way to use “old Google”? I don’t want to generate an AI search and contribute to ecological devastation every time I look something up. And the info that’s shoved at the top is often incomplete or inaccurate. Can I opt out?
@NewsFromGoogle Just a couple of years ago every single publisher would have been on your side Google... but then you destroyed so many businesses and livelihoods with your HCU classifier. Funny how things work out, huh.
Cloudflare’s new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping
“If you don’t compensate creators one way or another, then they stop creating,” says Cloudflare CEO @eastdakota
https://t.co/38GU11V532
If you have any of the following:
😍1k pageviews/month
😍40 posts
😍$100+ in total earnings
😍10 copies of a digital product sold
😍100 newsletter subscribers
You're doing better than 99% of bloggers. Keep going!
Doesn't September have the most perfect mornings?! Hushed and still, with low mists hugging the rivers and the treetops just turning gold where the sun has lingered longest. It feels as if Nature is gathering her breath now after the rush of Summer and before the blaze of Autumn.
I bet y'all forgot this, but the *original* "Helpful Content Update" was released in 2022 with the explicit goal of surfacing content made "by people, for people"
📅 Flash forward to 2023:
-ChatGPT enters the picture
-Pichai triggers a "Code Red" alarm
-Google goes all in on using AI to vacuum up all the value on the open web
-Google throws human creators to the curb in Sept
-Google gaslights those human creators into thinking it's *their* fault
📅 Flash forward to 2024:
-Google declared a monopoly in court
-Court docs show Google intentionally makes organic results worse in order to boost ad revenue
-Google pays news orgs to publish AI content
-Google has Twitter accounts actively encouraging the use of AI for SEO and content creation
-The "by people, for people" slogan disappears, along with many human creators📉