Am I the only one cynically thinking that "Russia, Iran, DPRK, PRC, etc" is the "But think of the chiiildren!!!" excuse for doing this?
And when Google say
"IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure is a little-known component of the digital ecosystem leveraged by a wide array of bad actors."
What they really mean is " ... leveraged by actors indiscriminately scraping the web and ignoring copyright - that are not us."
I can't help but feel this is just Google trying to pull the ladder up behind then and make it more difficult for other companies to collect training data.
And when Google say
"IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure is a little-known component of the digital ecosystem leveraged by a wide array of bad actors."
What they really mean is " ... leveraged by actors indiscriminately scraping the web and ignoring copyright - that are not us."
I can't help but feel this is just Google trying to pull the ladder up behind then and make it more difficult for other companies to collect training data.