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Dominic Preston
Google’s big ask.

Yesterday Emma Roth wrote that Google’s pitch for AI at I/O demands both your trust and your personal data. Going by the comment section, that’s a trade many of you are no longer willing to make.

monterxz:

Google lost the first long ago and will never get any more of the second out of me.

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