Think it works via the Google Home app and being on the same WiFi. I know Chromecast devices always need a phone at some point to get set up. Not sure about androidtv. Oddly this doesn’t seem to have gone out to all devices. I have Chromecast with Google TV and it still has an onscreen keyboard. But then again, I guess they don’t need to force me to use a phone with it.

yes and no. It is available it multiple forms.

You’re not really going to win this argument as I’m an anti-capitalist. So I agree a lot of that stuff is wrong too. I don’t believe you should own other’s labor. The employees should own the company. And I don’t believe in copyright, but it does exist and it’s enforced against individuals, so it’s only fair it’s enforced against them as well. I don’t think you should be allowed to blindly scrape when information could be behind an agreement to use it in a specific manner if accessed. Plus I think it should be opt in based off it being a new use and therefore a new right of copyright. Just as suddenly actors need to worry if they’ll be scanned and owned by a Hollywood studio now. It’s something a reasonable person wouldn’t expect. And that’s why past works are protected from that use.

Things behind a third party privacy policy, sure. You agreed to it, whatever. But your own website? I’m not feeling it.

If copyright law can work against the individual, it should work against the corporation as well. We can’t only enforce it against the little people. Enforce it for all or for none.

You should have the discussions first. Not after you already profited off someone else’s work. If the argument should be about whether they can use the data or not, then harvesting it first is absolutely harmful to the discussion you claim is important. You can’t just argue one side is in bad faith when the other side is already objectively acting in bad faith if we are to assume the discussion is real.

Explain why copyright exists. If copyright exists, what you state doesn’t hold legal grounds.

“anyone”. I hate when people use this word knowing full well it’s not true in meaning. “Nothing is stopping you from spending millions of dollars on your own LLM.” Ok.

The web is a bunch of information that is public, sure. People don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy but they used to have a reasonable expectation that their information would be used in a very specific fashion. Especially in the US where there is a default copyright claim on data. And crawling the web may ignore text that states you can’t use the data. Even if you include a clause saying by accessing the data you agree to the claim. That only works against little people. The “anyone” that can’t actually just go and build a LLM.