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- Guys, please forgive me if my English is crappy. My native language is Hungarian, so I use AI to write my replies and the English articles. I've been working on this case for almost a year now, and I just want this big corporation to finally be held legally accountable! This whole thing has consumed so much of my time and my nerves. Honestly, it's starting to break me down a little. But I'm not backing down! It’s a really ugly thing that they are stealing people's data. Authorities like NOYB, the DPC, and the AI Office basically don't give a shit, even though I sent them everything. Either the bureaucrats are idiots, or I just don't know why the case isn't moving forward at all. Please look at the many web archives I’ve linked here in the comments. :) THX all!by Bitu79
- Look at these archives here, they even banned me from their official forum, but I saved hundreds of my posts. Look at this: https://archive.ph/https://discuss.ai.google.dev/* and this: https://archive.org/details/@gy_rgy_ist_kovics/web-archive and this: https://archive.org/details/@gabor_gabor_freemail_hu/web-arc... and this: https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.a...by Bitu79
- Anybody who has ever run a website with customer data can instantly understand why they do it this way. I don't see any malice.
It's simple, really. You have a website where people can upload their cat photos. There's a delete button. People click the delete button, read the "This will really Delete your Thing. It's Permanent. You CAN'T GET IT BACK!" warning, and click the confirm button.
Then you get an angry email (and twitter post, and blog entry, and Reddit mob) saying "I can't believe you deleted my photo without asking. That was my favorite cat photo it was my only copy I'LL SUE YOU!@!!"
So you go into your console and flip the .isActive bit back to 1 on that photo, send off your stock apology, and get on with your day.
To run your business any other way is madness. You're not training or selling or otherwise misusing that cat photo. You just don't want to deal with that hassle every day. So you "delete" things by moving them someplace where they're not public anymore.
It's just what you do...
by jasonkester - I want to take this seriously, but eight (slop?) rehash of the story on the blog isn’t helping with credibility. Pro tip: don’t do that, however triggered you are, it definitely doesn’t help.
I don’t use Google AI Studio so can’t verify, good luck.
by oefrha - Kudos to the author for not being so bitter and jaded, like me, and reporting this thinking some change might come.
I have mostly resigned myself to watching in unsurprised disgust as tech companies (aided by oodles of HN users who work there!) ruin everything they touch with legal impunity.
by stackghost - I doubt much people using Google think that their data would just magically disappear the moment they click a button, to the contrary, I believe most qualified users would know that their data is forever stored, maybe "anonymized" sure (but can still be correlated back).
If some users think this, have they question the Why would they do it? Why would Google lose money that way? ToS is irrelevant when it comes to what's running on their own private infra.