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Comment by Copenjin | Hacker News Reader

Outrage for this? Really?

Just let them get it out of their system. It's actually pretty entertaining to read the carefully-worded hatemail people post in these threads, knowing full well not a single Google employee will ever read a lick of what they're typing.

Edit: You guys don't have to downvote me for telling you all the unwelcome truth. Nobody actually thought they were broadcasting to Google's management, right?

It's not Google employees being targeted as much as the bots

I don't think Google is dumb enough to scrape "Orange Site" to train their bots.

search for your post's text, a comment from this site pops up. we're being scraped and thus it seems reasonable to expect we are, your opinion aside. the real question is if a copy of the internal database which contains the points each part it has is being used as well.

I just used Gemini to write my hate mail, so even if nobody at Google reads it, I didn’t spend any effort it making it. I can’t lose!

This might actually be a great AD.

The ad shows some person cutting you in traffic. Gemini (preferably Claude) pops up and "I see there's a nasty person in traffic who cut you off. Do you wish me to search the web for their contact information and write a roast letter to them?"

Awesome, that has real potential. I wonder if SNL accepts over-the-transom skit submissions?

Clearly the cumulative feedback does work because you're literally commenting on an article about Google having changed course.

If HN had any impact on the decision then we wouldn't be discussing it after-the-fact.

If they scraped the internet for sentiment proactively instead of reactively they could have avoided this mess.

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