I think the damage is done. It will take a while for Google et al. to re-index that quagmire of tweets.
I think the damage is done. It will take a while for Google et al. to re-index that quagmire of tweets.
They’re going to collect a lot of worthless data in the process. They will need to fine tune their “signal-to-noise” algorithms and machine learning.
Now that someone else has got away with doing this Google can. They scraped it to improve search, now they scraped for AI. Iterative change.
We don’t miss the freedom. We know that we have a choice. We’re from the age of web communities being twenty to thirty people large. In those days communities were small. Now we’re shouting in a crowded room, to be heard. It’s nice to migrate, and find places where we’re heard, without having to be loud.
You’re an allosaur of the web like me. ;-). We were here before even the dinosaurs. ;-)
Nothing especially new. I’m surprised it has taken this long to decide to use it for AI. At the same time, I hope they have a team ready to deal with all the copyright claims. If youtube was a minefield, AI will be. They’re stealing IP directly and recycling it. If Google becomes AI, then Google will make itself obsolete. We use Google to search for answers by others, not to be force-fed a single answer.
With Kbin, Calckey, Mastodon, lemmy, Hugo and more we can. We don’t need to be trapped within the social media giants, especially after what happened to Instagram, Twitter, and now Reddit. Now is the time when we need to revert to the habit of using community websites, rather than social media giants.
Facebook behaved immorality. It rebranded as Meta, and now they want to trick some, by saying that Instagram is making a Twitter Clone… Facebook was already Twitter’s competition, from 2006 onwards.
This is my long-winded way of saying “nope”.
In the current era when you install a new web browser it will ask you which old browser you want to import your data from. It will also allow you to create an account with the browser company to keep it synched. You can swap browsers daily if you like. It’s relatively quick to do.