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Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 9 points 12 hours ago

Google has a market cap of about 2.1 trillion dollars. Therefore the stock price only has to go up by about 0,00007 percent following the iNaturalist announcement for this "investment" to pay off. Of course, this is just a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but maybe popular charities should keep this in mind before accepting money in a context like this.