• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    The “generative AI” mention in the grant is badly worded corporate buzzspeak, and doesn’t accurately reflect anything that will be used here - disregard any association to what you normally expect from those words

    That sounds particularly suspect, coming with no answer as to what it does mean.

    • Otter@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      I agree, and it’s also a second hand account from someone who met with them.

      However it IS enough for me to hold off on deleting anything until I can hear more. My big concern was this point:

      The grant from google is indeed a grant, and they are not receiving any data or anything else in exchange for it (I’m sure they’re scraping and stealing stuff anyway but that’s true for anything posted online)