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This is wild!
In less than a year, Google went from "you have to be in the office at least 3 days a week to do this job" to "we're moving your role to India & Mexico to cut costs." Factory jobs were the first to be shipped overseas. Now, it is white-collar ones. The worst part? The real automation hasn't even started yet. The tech industry isn't ready for AI.
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How many people in my network believe algorithms are distorting kids' well-being and addicting them to screens?
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When your lawyers write your policies as if you are above the law
Google is now facing a proposed class-action lawsuit for allegedly training its AI model using copyrighted material. Here is the scoop.
Background:
In May 2022, Google launched Imagen, and eventually Imagen 2 in December of the same year. It appears that Google scraped content available online, including copyrighted works, to train its AI model.
Lawsuit Against Google:
This proposed class-action lawsuit was filed by artists claiming that Google used their copyrighted material to train Imagen and other systems without permission.
Remember Google's Privacy Policy Update: In the summer of 2023, Google updated its Privacy Policy to state that its AI services could be trained on public data scraped from the web. The updated Privacy Policy stated: "We may collect information that's publicly available online or from other public sources to train Google's AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities.
Read more about it here.
