It only takes a single visit to an old house built around the turn of century to realize that the artistry, craftsmanship, and all of the other skills needed to make such a thing today are incredibly rare.
Everyone seems to think and say that they want some for of AI to arrive and free us from all that grind that is beneath us.
the SLTs of all major tech companies and software companies are absolutely hyping AI. these people are have compensation packages with significant ties to stock prices and those go up with hype and inflated expectations.
as fun as it would be for redditors to now go and burn down any/all content that would feed this bot, you have to believe that this announcement is more of an after-the-fact notification vs a we-are-about-to-do-this piece of information.
either way. there has never been a better time to abandon reddit so ... see you all on Lemmy and here.
If it bothers you if OpenAI were to scrape your public posts for training data, why would you quit posting on Reddit yet remain on other public forums like HN/Lemmy?
Seems more like an empty gesture than anything principled.
It bothers some people that Reddit’s value was built by its user base, and then Reddit turned around and abused its relationship with them for profit (pricing out third party apps that were considerably more value than the user-hostile and poor quality first party apps, then attempting to wrest control from and silence mods and community members, pumping up impressions by forcing promoted posts or subreddits, etc.). But I think you already knew that.
I have seen people on Hacker News earnestly suggest 24/7 VR for the elderly as a way to stave off dementia. If OpenAI wants to touch a dataset this radioactive, I welcome them with open arms and a knowing smile.
Included in that mix will be the wise and nurturing influence of 16 year-old angry white male affluent suburb libertarian intellects.
Junior ML engineers can graft on PR-friendly "AI safety" filters all day, but someone knows what evil lurks in the heart of gigabytes of floating point numbers.
For me personally it's not a problem that OpenAI can scrape my posts, it's a problem that only OpenAI can scrape my posts.
I don't want one company to have the monopoly to train an AI on everything that me and all my friends post on a particular platform. If we're going to decide that training AIs on scraped data is fine, then everyone should have equal access to the dataset. Otherwise it's just a massive data grab and a massive transfer of power to whoever wins this data race, enacted by some platform owners hoping to monetize their users even more
This. I invite everyone to go and look at the amount settings that must be turned OFF in Windows 10/11, Firefox, Chrome, whatever app from companies that claim to respect user privacy. For Windows it is literally dozens of toggles, and unsoliticed apps. Then there are the so called security features like malware scanning of URLs/file downloads, etc. Then the DNS replacements which, ya know, still see the URLs that you are asking for.
Every company that claims to respect your privacy is full of shit. There is too much money to made in not respecting it and this is the sole reason that they exist.
"Once the Guardia Civil obtained the iCloud email address, the documents show that it requested information from Apple, which in turn provided a full name, two home addresses and a linked Gmail account."
Basically everything but their favorite colors, TV shows and emojis.
If anyone is dumb enough to trust Microsoft after all the shit they've pulled over the last 30+ years, including the most recent collection of large-scale security fuckups, they deserve what they get.
Until we sort out the whole idea that it is OK for the US intelligence communitity to use Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, N-other big tech companies to act as their data collection services. They will all continue to basically do whatever they want including jeopardizing our national security with their plainly stated profit motives.
It isn't that Microsoft does not care at all about security it is just that they see it as some business that they can/must make 40-50% margin on like the rest of their operations.[aka outsource it all to countries where folks have fake credentials]
Everyone seems to think and say that they want some for of AI to arrive and free us from all that grind that is beneath us.
I am just reminded of this TNG episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA9fcTJGXf0