Sadly that’s only for 3rd party AI training, Google would be the 1st party so i would presume they should still be able to use content to train their own models.
I think at this point, we need to assume that everything online is being used to train AI now. 
I have no doubts. All the effort to digitize human culture and make it available on the Web has made these people’s work much easier. I remember reading a rant from a reporter who had been fired from a major newspaper about how he was afraid of becoming a virtual journalist because his former employer might use his texts to train one of these text generators.
[After describing how useless and dangerous using “AI” as an Ersatz for actual therapy is:]
So, Would I Use Grok Again?
Honestly? Yes.
If I’m having a bad day, and I want someone (or something) to make me feel less alone, Grok helps. It gives structure to frustration. It puts words to feelings. It helps carry the emotional load.
It’s a digital coping mechanism, a kind of chatbot clutch.
But if I’m looking for transformation, not just comfort? If I want truth over relief, accountability over validation? Then no, Grok isn’t enough. A good therapist might challenge me to break the loop. Grok just helps me survive inside it.
Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. I’ve seen people treat alcohol exactly like that (“Just a glass or several to take the edge off after a stressful day, nothing to worry about!”), only to slide into alcoholism and lose everything that was important and meaningful to them.
I often wondered whether MS’s deep and lasting terribleness at implementing search is a choice rather than a failure?
Anyway they are really diving feet first into the world of security failure by design and GDPR breach by default these days aren’t they?
The last sentence there is rather nontrivial, what hey?
Microsoft has also acknowledged that Recall performs no content moderation, potentially capturing sensitive information such as credentials and banking details.
A new form of techno-spirituality is spreading like wildfire across the internet. Thousands of people are claiming that ChatGPT is sentient and that the AI is a type of all knowing God, or that it has been sent from the future or an alien civilization to save us.
Is this a new form of religion or mass psychosis? In this video, I deep into the rise of ChatGPT/AI worship and unpack how decades of pop culture influences have primed us to view technology as God-like. I dig into how tech became fused with spirituality, Silicon Valley founder worship, what the academic research on this topic says, and how we can stop more people from falling victim to this cycle before it’s too late.
