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No, the issue is that anything AI creates is by definition derivative. Google doesn't whip up generative content, it points you to content.
OpenAI is claiming that they can't do shit without scraping copyrighted works and we all know that's a load of BS because we're adrift in a sea of royalty-free text. Critical mass happened well over a decade ago. The amount of new random crap hosted on the internet in the past 30 days would probably take 500 years for one person to digest. Bear at a stream watching an impossibly large amount of salmon jumping
Actually Google tries their hardest NOT to point you to content. They scrape the data from sites and display it directly in the search results so that you don't need to visit any site except Google. Their new AI answers that they are pushing on users are just another step in that direction.
Which is why Google is no longer my default browser. I'd be quite happy if it reverted Back to don't be evil or just ceased ro exist
Literally every page Google shows you, where it also shows you those ads it makes money from, is Google's content and it is derived from the data it gets scraping the web.
What the fuck are you even talking about? Making a list of website identifiers (names and URLs) so that people can go to them isn't even slightly the same as making a derived work of the websites' contents.
That is not how Google operates.
ok thanks google ceo. please explain
Google has to scrape and process the entire webpage and analyze the content to figure out which links to provide you. The end result of them presenting you with those links is from them copying and processing all your site's data, including when you aren't listed in the search results.
No, anything Google shows you is kosher and totally symbiotic. A website being shown on Google is at the site owner's discretion - if they allow search engines to crawl they get the benefit of exposure, and the search engine gets the benefit of having relevant hits and ad revenue and all that. Most sites want click-throughs so it's usually in their best interest to let search engines list their sites.
Google isn't exploiting anyone, kinda the opposite, since site owners don't pay for any ads or exposure (but that exposure has so much value that they'll pay for SEO). Site owners can decline and Google abides. Anything on Google is on Google with consent.