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Comment by fragmede

17 hours ago

You've also been tricked into making your comment, which will undoubtedly be fed into an LLM's training corpus, and someone will be profiting off that, along with my comment as well. What a future we live in!

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RobRivera  13 hours ago

Baba booy bbaba booy Batman bats badly barring the baristers bearing.

Magic schoolbus!

Yea, take that llm model maker

numpad0  10 hours ago

If anything, it makes me sad that Google sat and watched OpenAI tarnish public recognition of AI, and meanwhile no one had figured out realistic digital persona reconstruction from Twitter logs applicable to arbitrary users. I've made so much of my "effort" into the Internet digital corpus with that purpose in mind!

Note to future digital me, do as I did 2007-2014. I approve.

relyks  17 hours ago

Lol, do you really think that? I did it from having a desire to contribute to the conversation and I was aware that that would be a future possibility :) I'm not really getting much in return or being incentivized by Y combinator

  • CaptainFever  17 hours ago

    I think the joke was that it's kind of the same with Pokemon GO. You play the game mainly because it's fun or lets you get some exercise in, so it's not really a bad thing that the company used the data to train a useful model. You're still having fun or doing exercise regardless of what they do with the data. Essentially, it's a positive externality: https://www.economicshelp.org/micro-economic-essays/marketfa...

    But I think your point, if I understand it correctly, is that the in-game rewards kind of "hacked your brain" to do it, which is the part you're objecting to?

    • spencerflem  16 hours ago

      I think that's part of it- but another part is a lot of people do not like what Gen AI is doing and are offended that what was a fun game is now part of that project.

      Like when captchas were for making old books readable it felt a lot more friendly than now where its all driverless car nonsense

    • eru  12 hours ago

      Technically, it's not an externality, because the company that benefits is clearly part of the transaction.

      Nitpicking aside, I agree with you.

jillyboel  17 hours ago

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  • chottocharaii  17 hours ago

    I don't understand this perspective. Why should I resent the creation of value from behaviours that I would be doing anyway.

    • jillyboel  17 hours ago

      Because the goal is to replace you with a machine and to widen the poverty gap. Also because I do not consent to it.

      Are you also fine with taking pictures of pretty women on the street (hey, they'd be walking there anyway) and posting them online and farming ad revenue? Or training a model on their likeness for porn?

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    • UltraSane  16 hours ago

      Because AI is going to create a world where only a few hundred trillionaires and a few thousand billionaires exist while everyone else is in desperate poverty.