Google is using the classic crap about “exposure” to try and sucker illustrators into working for free. But many of these professional illustrators are rightly telling Google to stick it up their algorithm. Google wasn’t asking just anyone to draw them some pictures, they went to the pros. It shows how much insight and respect Google has for visual professionals: NONE.
I wonder if the Google programmers get paid? Maybe it’s just a wonderful opportunity for them to have millions of people use their code. Google and their piss poor ideas about the value of art can get bent.