Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?

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Post by randomlogin » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 9:12 PM UTC

Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?
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Post by bmitc » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 11:44 PM UTC

In general, we need a data bill of rights. Corporations are enslaving us digitally, and I feel it's reaching a boiling point.

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Post by andybak » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 11:46 PM UTC

bmitc wrote: post #2

In general, we need a data bill of rights. Corporations are enslaving us digitally, and I feel it's reaching a boiling point.

There's plenty of AI being trained by hobbyists, artists and enthusiasts too.

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Post by graphe » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 11:49 PM UTC

bmitc wrote: post #2

In general, we need a data bill of rights. Corporations are enslaving us digitally, and I feel it's reaching a boiling point.

There are zero incentives for them to comply and zero ways a person can make them accountable. If your SSN can be leaked and nothing will happen why would they care about scrappable pictures?

The only times they care are when it can cost them money. SD didn't care about visual artists but could not do the same for generative music since the rights are managed by deep pockets.

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Post by dr_dshiv » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 11:54 PM UTC

bmitc wrote: post #2

In general, we need a data bill of rights. Corporations are enslaving us digitally, and I feel it's reaching a boiling point.

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Post by ilamont » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:02 AM UTC

Not just personal information. Blogs, commercial content, news articles and more. Check out the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence's C4 dataset to see if anything you wrote was ingested:

https://c4-search.apps.allenai.org

Love the disclaimer: "The dataset is released under the terms of ODC-BY. By using this, you are also bound by the Common Crawl Terms of Use in respect of the content contained in the dataset."

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Post by thelittleone » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:36 AM UTC

graphe wrote: post #4

bmitc wrote: post #2

In general, we need a data bill of rights. Corporations are enslaving us digitally, and I feel it's reaching a boiling point.

There are zero incentives for them to comply and zero ways a person can make them accountable. If your SSN can be leaked and nothing will happen why would they care about scrappable pictures? The only times they care are when it can cost them money. SD didn't care about visual artists but could not do the same for generative music since the rights are managed by deep pockets.

AI might lead to more paywalled sites which would suck.

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Post by moose4400 » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:50 AM UTC

Now's a good time to scrub your online identity before things get worse.

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Post by Retric » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 1:00 AM UTC

dr_dshiv wrote: post #5

bmitc wrote: post #2

In general, we need a data bill of rights. Corporations are enslaving us digitally, and I feel it's reaching a boiling point.

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The complete lack of power or ownership of your work.

Do you think anyone consented to have AI companies scrap GitHub etc?

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Post by jprete » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 1:10 AM UTC

The article weasels out at the end by claiming that companies “may be unable to comply” with requirements to delete personal data. It’s easy to comply - if there’s no other choice then you delete the model and all backups and derivative data that was trained in flagrant violation of the law.