Fuck AI

Yeah I'm very surprised all of these giant companies are using Claude and open ai and giving it access to all of their code and proprietary info. But I had to sign an NDA to work there lol

You're not wrong, but it's really American-software companies. Google would not allow a non-American business to be listed on Google maps without providing restricted-data that included: a) a video demonstrating how to access the business, b) passwords for logins to the software they used, c) & codes to physical safes that resided at the business's location. Ostensibly this was to prove that the entity requesting a business addition to Google maps was the proprietor. They refused. I mean, it is the sort of information a thief would want.

I have to state that the above was told to me by the store manager and even I felt it could not be true, but I could not discern a reason why they'd lie about this particular thing whilst I could see why Google would want such information. It would help with credibility: that the individual really did have a link to the business in question, but then if Google used that information to verify it was correct they're hacking other businesses to do so.

It also has to be mentioned that Google (and any major American-software company) embeds itself into the United State's surveillance operations and apparatuses.

If anyone has more information about how businesses register on Google maps I'd be interested in reading. I'm specifically interested in foreign businesses outside America, not domestic American listings inside America.

Well, they gotta make money on something, because that sure aren't makin' it on AI...