Canada has been left out of a recent expansion of Google's artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Bard as the big tech giant continues its fight with the federal government over the Online News Act.

Canada has been left out of a recent expansion of Google’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Bard as the big tech giant continues its fight with the federal government over the Online News Act.

  • nathris
    14·
    1 year ago

    “Reposting” as in linking to their content? Most other companies pay Google for that service.

    How are those companies going to drive views to their site? Do you think Microsoft and Meta are going to play ball? They aren’t. Do you expect Lemmy instances to pay whenever someone uploads a Canadian news article?

    Our country is a literal South Park meme right now. We’re just waiting on the bubble gum and Bennigans coupons.

    This is borderline fascist legislation. Restricting the flow of information on the internet so that Canadians are forced to turn to traditional mainstream media for their news. It was never about money.

    • corsicanguppy
      4·
      1 year ago

      This is borderline fascist legislation.

      No it’s not. It’s dumb, sure; but it’s not fascism.

      What’s your goal to preserve the 4th Estate?

    • JshKlsn@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      “Reposting” as in linking to their content? Most other companies pay Google for that service.

      Google has apps that rehost content instead of linking to it. Also, many people only view the headline or the brief description, driving views away completely.

      How are those companies going to drive views to their site? Do you think Microsoft and Meta are going to play ball? They aren’t. Do you expect Lemmy instances to pay whenever someone uploads a Canadian news article?

      Like I said, search engines rely on content to work. You can already request your website be removed from Google, and prevent it from ever being crawled again. Imagine if everyone did this, Google would literally be useless. Google needs content to work. Google shows ads in their search engine, so they are getting paid by simply linking to your website.

      Who said Meta and Microsoft wont play ball? Who said Lemmy is going to have to, is Lemmy a search engine? You’re losing the point.

      Our country is a literal South Park meme right now. We’re just waiting on the bubble gum and Bennigans coupons.

      Ya, because people like you are okay with Google censoring and blocking news to Canadians for… some reason? Not sure why.

      This is borderline fascist legislation. Restricting the flow of information on the internet so that Canadians are forced to turn to traditional mainstream media for their news. It was never about money.

      Oh, there’s the south park coming out. It’s clear you’ve never created content online. What Google is doing is wrong, and Canadian journalists aren’t wrong for wanting to be paid for views that are taken away. It’s quite literally Google that is restricting the flow of information, so not sure why you’re blaming Canada.

      All Google needs to do is pay pennies per click, just like they do with everything else. They are being a greedy American company who will slowly learn that they can’t treat the rest of the world like they do Americans. Look how great Google is. https://youtu.be/cA_cJAFF8Ss