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If it’s free, then you are the product.

That’s the ol’ internet axiom that ran through my head as I read this New York Times roundup of T&C changes that have quietly occurred over the last year, coinciding with the need to feed the hungry AI machines with more and more data. The piece does a good job of showing the before and after language using images like this one for Google:

Google’s updated terms.
Google’s updated terms.
Image: New York Times
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