Comment by eli
17 hours ago
Seems like an open question as to whether that violates any laws.
Another way to look at it is that if you publish a service on the web, you have limited rights to restrict what people do with it.
Isn't that the logic Google search relies on in the first place? I didn't give permission for Google to crawl and index and deep link to my site (let alone summarize and train LLMs on it). They just did it anyway, because it's on a public website.
Google's stance is "I can copy you and you can't stop me" as well as "You can't copy me, I'll sue you"
Maybe it has changed but Google doesn't look like it uses litigation as its primary weapon. It defends itself but rarely attacks.
The are however more than happy to use technical measures, like blocking accounts. And because of their position, blocking your Google account may be more damaging than a successful lawsuit.