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Comment by hnarn

2 days ago

”I posted content to a proprietary social network, then got upset when it generated a page description with AI”

Sure, the description is garbage, it may not be obvious it’s not written by the user, but people need to understand what partaking in closed and proprietary social media actually means. You are not paying anything, you do not control the content, you are the product.

If you don’t enjoy using a service that does this to the content you post then don’t use that service.

I’ll stick to this point only even if I feel that there are other things in the post that are terribly annoying.

When the behavior is not only something something you "don't like" but is also (as this woman perceives it) a professional threat (she makes a living out of carefully choosing her words; she felt this attributed to her words she would never have said) and furthermore is unexpected, to simply quietly leave the platform seems insufficient. One ought to warn other users about the unexpected dangerous practice -- which is precisely what this article accomplishes!

That’s one approach. Another is that you can complain about things companies do that you don’t like.