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I did not consent on my HN data being used by entities other than HN[1]. Please remove all my comments and data from this dataset. [1] As per HN license: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
Am I not allowed to read your comments?
Am I not allowed to learn from reading your comments?
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Yes, I expect it to work in the same way instagram works, for example. If a commercial entity started yoinking photos from instagram and using them for commercial purposes, shit will hit the fan. Again, the fact my user data has been scrapped already doesn't mean it was scrapped legally. I'm ok with HN showing my comments, I'm not ok with anyone else than HN using my user data.
> ommercial entity started yoinking photos from instagram and using them for commercial purposes, shit will hit the fan. Will it though? I would imagine Meta would block them and then posture with a C&D or a frivolous lawsuit, but if they share the phones you gave them on the public internet, they're publicly consumable right? What law do you feel is broken there?
How nice it would be to have an LLM trained on all of my previous writings and simply be able to click a button to indicate "reply to this person, please." I know I don't have enough training data from HN, and maybe not even from all of the sites I contribute, combined. It is still a nice thought, though.
But: Let's say I do acquire enough training data to have a local LLM do exactly what I describe. My volume of "replies" would certainly increase. Is that a good thing, on average? If the tool became ubiquitous, would it be a good thing for the average social media user? Or more pointedly, would it be a good thing for consumers of that social media? The cynic in me thinks "no" -- the effort required today surely weeds out _some_ idiots....
(Full disclosure, I nearly closed this window without clicking the "add comment" button.)
I did not consent on my HN data being used by entities other than HN[1]. Please remove all my comments and data from this dataset. [1] As per HN license: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
I am an entity other than HN. Am I not allowed to read your comments? Am I not allowed to learn from reading your comments?
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Actually, another problem might be GDPR: I have found my username... and that is a clearly a PII because it's directly and univocally bound to me I dont really care (for now) about this... but on the principle, I'm a bit fed up too by companies just crawling anything to train anymodel without any care about the datas, the people that produced them, and the consequences on people's life. Maybe I could use the new Euro…
I'm not up on the nuance of the GDPR, but has it been tested that your public profile name - which you set knowing it will be displayed publicly - is PII? I'd be very surprised if that were the case.
Personal data is (broadly) considered to be data that could be used to track or tie your behavior online together into a profile. The UK's ICO calls out usernames specifically as an example of such data. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re....
(For those of us who have been around on the Internet long enough to remember the era where people intentionally chose handles to remain pseudonymous and separate from their IRL personas, this seems counter-intuitive and a little preposterous, but the GDPR doesn't care what "netizens" think about privacy; it's a broad attempt to impose a "non-native" concept of privacy over the preexisting net culture).
Rough view on mobile the navigation isnt auto hiding and in the way.
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Actually, another problem might be GDPR: I have found my username... and that is a clearly a PII because it's directly and univocally bound to me I dont really care (for now) about this... but on the principle, I'm a bit fed up too by companies just crawling anything to train anymodel without any care about the datas, the people that produced them, and the consequences on people's life. Maybe I could use the new Euro…
I'm not up on the nuance of the GDPR, but has it been tested that your public profile name - which you set knowing it will be displayed publicly - is PII? I'd be very surprised if that were the case.
For example, you may agree to have your linkedIn profile name next to your HN username... maybe. But I'm not sure that you would agree to have your LinkedIn profile name next to your Tinder username.
And you sure don't want that to happen without your agreement and even without you knowing about it (but learning about it from a colleague for example).
That's why GDPR has some right to deletion or modification. And why some days, Europe may go after data brocker
(as a side note: not sure why my comments were downvoted. I didn't say that I would go after anybody - and surely not HN - I only said that uncontrolled use of any data without any anonymization and without consent might be the source of problems with regard to legislation decided BECAUSE too many shady business abused of it. You may not like it but then... well... downvote the abusers)
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Sematic (OP's employer; rebranded to Airtrain?) is a YC company. Not a lawyer but I assume that would be included in "affiliated" since YC presumably has some ownership of them. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airtrain-ai
Welp, there it is then. If they are YC affiliated, nothing I can do. But I do feel saddened and personally betrayed; I thought the licence I gave to YN was just for news.ycombinator.com to store and show my comments, not for any other purposes. Silly, silly me.
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> ommercial entity started yoinking photos from instagram and using them for commercial purposes, shit will hit the fan. Will it though? I would imagine Meta would block them and then posture with a C&D or a frivolous lawsuit, but if they share the phones you gave them on the public internet, they're publicly consumable right? What law do you feel is broken there?
It's not Meta that would sue them (although they would), it's the copyright owners (the users) that will. Photos or comments, the User retains copyright on their content, and only license it to Meta or YC for specific purposes. Yes, that means Meta/YC and their affiliated companies can use the content for other purposes than displaying it in a browser, but 3rd parties 100% can't.
Or are you complaining here (ironically) to make a point, but you don't actually care that much?