Google’s attorney starts by emphasizing all the privacy and competitive problems he sees with the DOJ’s overall proposal, but concedes that some limited data syndication could be feasible. “None of this reverse-engineering” products or “feeding all of our data into an LLM”, Schmidtlein says, but the syndication could help improve search results marginally. (You may recall that Sundar Pichai claims unlimited data sharing could essentially kill Google search.)