I guess they made the math and the probabilities and figured that it'll gain them more money to do this and accept the inevitable fines that come from this.
Likely true. Previously it was any attribution data that was the most valuable since advertising benefit from that. With the LLM and what comes next I imagine every bit of data, structured or unstructured, accurate or not, is going to have some value to someone somewhere.
Of course they did. It was probably the primary factor. Google is a business looking to survive the technology impact of LLMS, not a tool to improve humans lives.
