Comment by somenameforme

What you're suggesting is certainly possible - and no doubt what Google would claim. But companies like Google could trivially obtain massive representative samples for training of basically every sort of endeavor and classification of humanity throughout all of modern history on this entire planet.

To me, this feels much more like Google intentionally trying to bias what was probably an otherwise representative sample, and hilarity ensuing. But it's actually quite sad too. Because these companies are really butchering what could be amazing tools for visually exploring our history - "our" being literally any person alive today.