[HN Gopher] Why Isn't Google's "Generative AI Search" Copyright ...
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       Why Isn't Google's "Generative AI Search" Copyright Theft?
        
       Author : mdotk
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-05-14 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | mdotk wrote:
       | I know that a lot of content on the web is rehashed itself, but
       | many creators actually review products themselves, speak from
       | first hard experience, research, etc.
       | 
       | The original knowledge has to come from someone human.
       | 
       | How can Google promote its "1 trillion facts" database of
       | scrapped content and just use it to show answers to searchers
       | alongside ads.
       | 
       | Seems like they are doing this without regard for much anything
       | else because OpenAI is a new entrant and about to threaten their
       | search empire?
        
         | zer00eyz wrote:
         | > "1 trillion facts"
         | 
         | https://www.techdirt.com/2006/08/08/turns-out-major-league-b...
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         | You cant copyright facts. There is a legal argument to be made
         | that an LLM is a reduction of copyright material into its
         | underlying data (its vectors).
         | 
         | The only people who are going to win in this fight are the
         | lawyers.
        
         | pixl97 wrote:
         | Since when does original knowledge have to come from humans?
        
       | joegibbs wrote:
       | Because facts aren't copyrightable.
       | 
       | I think it's good that Google Search is getting shaken up.
       | There's too much useless blogspam put together by "SEO experts"
       | that nobody actually reads or wants to read, and if it's going to
       | be that or nothing but Reddit comments, then Reddit comments
       | would be better.
       | 
       | This guy posts about nothing but how terrible Google HCU is. I'd
       | be interested in knowing what kind of websites he works on
       | boosting, and whether they actually have content that people want
       | to read without needing meticulous SEO optimisation to achieve
       | good results.
        
         | mdotk wrote:
         | To be fair, a lot of the content is opinion too.
         | 
         | But I see now on the facts point. Thanks
        
         | zero-sharp wrote:
         | There's plenty of instances where the content produced by
         | chatbots isn't factual _and_ is also based off of content that
         | somebody else worked to produce.
        
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