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A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people's data to train AI
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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I don't see the issue with this, don't give your data to companies if you don't them to use it. No one is forcing us to use these services, if you don't want twitter to train their AI off your tweets, then don't tweet.
The problem is if you signed up for an account for a social media service years ago and they suddenly decide (without telling you or getting your consent) to start training off your data, there is nothing you can do if you don't know it's happening.
If the admins of the largest Lemmy instance didn't tell us that they were gonna use our posts and comments as AI training data and everybody was none the wiser, how would we react? We wouldn't until someone finds out and spills the beans.
I'm actually fine with it, in the case of Lemmy this is all public data, whether or not Lemmy admins are training AI on it, there is nothing to stop me from training my own AI models with this data.
I think the larger issue is I don't consider it "your data" once you put it on one of these sites. As soon as you take your own thought and put it on facebook/instagram/reddit/whatever, it's now theirs, it lives in their databases, and frankly for a social media company it's probably their most valuable asset.
No one is forcing anyone to use social media, if you want your thoughts and actions to be your own I would recommend not putting them on the internet.