Google Antitrust Lawsuit
While the DOJ is pushing for the sale of Google's Chrome browser, something else caught my eye.
New York Times 2 hours ago:
"The government also asked the judge to force Google to shed any stakes in artificial intelligence companies that control technology that could compete with search engines. Generative A.I. has emerged as the next big playing field in tech, and Google has already integrated its own A.I. into search results.
Google is an investor in Anthropic, an A.I. start-up that makes a chatbot called Claude. Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.
Publishers and website owners should also have the ability to opt out of Google’s A.I. models using that content for training, the government said in its filing."
That last sentence caught my eye. If granted, then this brings "training content" into the copyright realm. With Big Data, Google should be able to know where it stole its content from. Websites opting out, could demand that their content be expunged from the AI database or credited with a link back.
Write your congressmen - this might be our only chance to get a leg up on the AI juggernaut, gobbling up our content and making us obsolete.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/tech … -doj.html?
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edited.Yes, I was listening to Scott Galloway and Kara Swisha's take on this the other day.
It's an ongoing court case. The next stage will be Google responding to the judge in December. I'm not sure what a member of Congress can do at this stage.
I hope Google will be broken up, of course, I've argued for this for over ten years. Fines and other sanctions have no effect on Google, breaking it up is the only good solution.
It's difficult to be certain what effect the incoming Trump government and a new DOJ will have on the situation.
Google has been good at kicking the can down the road and I assume they will attempt to continue with that strategy.It's more a matter of letting powers that be know that people are interested in the outcome of this lawsuit.
Google and other tech companies have been aggressively advertising that they should not be regulated, and we need to let big tech be big tech, or the country will go to hell.
Congress can legislate; they can also make noise that can have an effect on public opinion and judges are part of the public..It's certainly a significant moment but I can't help but see it within the context of a struggle that's been going on for many years.
Most of the public and I would say, members of Congress don't understand or care, but I agree that they should.
