Very low grade visibility too... If platforms make users popular for their original ideas and posts, it makes it harder for Ai to secretly co-opt and then re-present it's own data as original, authentic, and useful.
There are major conflicts of interest in social media data being used to train Ai in this manner off of uncompensated, unattributed, and scraped public user data.
This is the economy of pulling info out of humans. One of the worst examples of this is Quora. You answer a question... and days later... you get emails from Quora asking about related, but not entirely related questions about the same topic... I was baffled, how come I answered a very niche like question and someone already asks about more details. I checked the question and there was no author displayed. So, in essence a bot created more questions about the same topic. So you are feeding a bot, as it tries to wrestle more and more information out from you. What an ugly scheme.
Crowdsourcing started out innocently, but now that so many companies are turning previously no charge services into subscription services, it's rather crazy how far they go in encouraging free complex labor out of users now... The very same people they charge to use their platforms at that.
Does anyone remember "information wants to be free"? Attributed to Stewart Brand, but expounded on by Richard Stallman as (credit Wikipedia):
> I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By "free" I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses ... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.
Converting the free information into property is the problem. It's not harvesting the forest or the underground rocks into property, it's collecting the output of people and making it not their own.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 20.2 ms ] threadIt's asking a lot of people very specific questions related to their field. The only pay/return is visibility.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/over-1-million-expert-answers...
A lot of people are answering too.
If they're building their own LLM this kind of data is perfect.
edit: And for a long time the reddit sub r/AskReddit has questions asked that sounded like prompt with the purpose with the purpose of training AI.
There are major conflicts of interest in social media data being used to train Ai in this manner off of uncompensated, unattributed, and scraped public user data.
> I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By "free" I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses ... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.
Converting the free information into property is the problem. It's not harvesting the forest or the underground rocks into property, it's collecting the output of people and making it not their own.