The deal is publishers (including stackoverflow, reddit, etc etc) let Google scrape their pages because they send traffic. That's the trade.
If the trade, instead, is google scrapes your pages, uses that as AI training data to give "searchers" answers, and then and never sends you traffic, site owners will block Google's scrapers. And just like that, all the training data disappears.
Google could afford to pay publishers, but that also opens the doors to governments the world over demanding payment for scraping and links, so... yeah. And also, then, what is their advantage vs OpenAI, and how does Google remain ungodly profitable if their tac jumps thousands of times, etc? Tough spot.
The deal is publishers (including stackoverflow, reddit, etc etc) let Google scrape their pages because they send traffic. That's the trade.
If the trade, instead, is google scrapes your pages, uses that as AI training data to give "searchers" answers, and then and never sends you traffic, site owners will block Google's scrapers. And just like that, all the training data disappears.
Google could afford to pay publishers, but that also opens the doors to governments the world over demanding payment for scraping and links, so... yeah. And also, then, what is their advantage vs OpenAI, and how does Google remain ungodly profitable if their tac jumps thousands of times, etc? Tough spot.