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Publisher opt-outs of AI training cut Google’s DeepMind training data in half.
During its Search antitrust trial yesterday, a DOJ attorney produced a document showing that “80 billion of 160 billion ‘tokens’ — snippets of content — after filtering out the material that publishers had opted out of allowing Google to use for training its AI,” according to Bloomberg.
But that opt-out only applies to DeepMind models, Bloomberg reports — when asked if “the search org has the ability to train on the data that publishers had opted out of training,” DeepMind VP Eli Collins replied, “Correct — for use in search.”
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