Day 14: Microsoft's CEO testified about Google's grip on the market and a former Google executive explained why he tried to build a rival search engine.
"Google could secure exclusive deals with content publishers that prevent Microsoft from accessing the content needed to train its AI models. “What is publicly available today, will it be publicly available tomorrow? That’s the issue.”
How these Billionares talk about data as a commodity is incredible. It's people's work. Artists, writers, real people. These AI systems are freely scraping online content to train their models without paying royalties or giving any attribution whatsoever. Where are these 'exclusive deals' for the common man?
I would have happily paid $50/year for a good/private search engine, but I never heard of Neeva until this trial. Now why is that? From somebody online all the time...
"Google could secure exclusive deals with content publishers that prevent Microsoft from accessing the content needed to train its AI models. “What is publicly available today, will it be publicly available tomorrow? That’s the issue.”
How these Billionares talk about data as a commodity is incredible. It's people's work. Artists, writers, real people. These AI systems are freely scraping online content to train their models without paying royalties or giving any attribution whatsoever. Where are these 'exclusive deals' for the common man?
I would have happily paid $50/year for a good/private search engine, but I never heard of Neeva until this trial. Now why is that? From somebody online all the time...
After Neeva shut down, I switched to Kagi.com, which is also subscription based. Doesn't have the AI features that Neeva did, but otherwise similar.
Thanks for the detailed coverage.
You mentioned last week that the DOJ was asking for more time for the interviews and that Google opposed adding more time. Has anything come of that?
And I apologize if I missed it earlier (very possible), but what is the current schedule for the trial? Is there a tentative 'end-date' in place?