As it turns out, it’s impossible to remove a user’s data from a trained A.I. model. Deleting the model entirely is also difficult—and there’s little regulation to enforce either option.

I’m rather curious to see how the EU’s privacy laws are going to handle this.

(Original article is from Fortune, but Yahoo Finance doesn’t have a paywall)

  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    And the rest of the data Google has been viewing, cataloging and selling back to everyone for years, because they’re legally allowed to do so… you don’t see the irony in that?

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Are they selling back scrapped content? I thought it was only user behaviors through the ad network?

      About cataloging at least it is opt-out though robot.txt 🤷

      EDIT: plus, “we are already doing bad” is never a good argument to continue doing bad, if Google were to be in fault this could get the traction to slap their ass

      • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Google crawls the internet, archives entire actual photos, large snippets (at least) from every website it sees, aggregates it into a different form and serves it back to people for profit. It’s the same business model, different results with the processing of the data.

        • bobettes_bob@kbin.social
          31·
          1 year ago

          Google doesn’t sell the data they collect… They sell ads and use their data to better target people with said ads. Third parties are paying google to target their ads to the right people.

          • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            You go to google because of the data they collected from the open internet. Peoples’ photos, articles they’ve written, books, etc. They aggregate it, process it and serve it back to you alongside ads. They also collect data about you and sell that as well. But no one would go to Google if they hadn’t aggregated, processed and repackaged the internet’s data.

            • bobettes_bob@kbin.social
              21·
              1 year ago

              They also collect data about you and sell that as well.

              No they don’t. Why would they sell the data they use to target ads? If other corporations could just buy the data, they wouldn’t need to pay google to target the ads, they’d just buy the data and do it themselves, Google isn’t a data broker. They keep the data for them, it would be business suicide if they’d just sell all the data they collect.