Comment by al_borland
8 hours ago
It might be time to update the mission statement.
“Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”
8 hours ago
It might be time to update the mission statement.
“Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”
Why it's almost certainly not by choice.
* for us, advertisers and our AI models
My guess is that AI training is the main issue.
Data that you can prove was generated by humans is now exceedingly valuable ...and most of that comes from the days before LLMs. The situation is a bit like how steel manufactured before the nuclear age is valuable.
But why would people train on excerpts from Google Books when whole books can be downloaded on libgen and such?
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