Woof. Talk about a bad reputation exemplified. I can't imagine what it's like working on stuff like this at Google, earnestly just trying to make a great product people will want to use, only to have to fight decades of user-hostile product destruction that the company has done.
Take a look at Instagram's Threads. They had 100M users in a few days. Do you think people around the world really care about data being used?
On a related note, I am sad about the state of HN comments, which resembles Reddit more and more.
The blog post specifically mentions the data is private and won't be used to train models, which can't be said about the ChatGPT based tools which do this, but yet, here we have people not bothering to read and just write a cliched comment about "collecting user data".
Only us big nerds on Hacker News actually pay attention to this or care.
Most people never even hear about this stuff. From what I understand, in the Google world, you release a product, you get a promotion. So, as cynical as it is, and everyone in Google knows, their product will get cancelled eventually.
Screw it, I got a promotion, I got some money. It's good for my career.
phillipcarter|2 years ago
amf12|2 years ago
On a related note, I am sad about the state of HN comments, which resembles Reddit more and more.
The blog post specifically mentions the data is private and won't be used to train models, which can't be said about the ChatGPT based tools which do this, but yet, here we have people not bothering to read and just write a cliched comment about "collecting user data".
thefourthchime|2 years ago
Most people never even hear about this stuff. From what I understand, in the Google world, you release a product, you get a promotion. So, as cynical as it is, and everyone in Google knows, their product will get cancelled eventually.
Screw it, I got a promotion, I got some money. It's good for my career.
__loam|2 years ago
croes|2 years ago
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photonbeam|2 years ago
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