Is this true for posts from people with deactivated/deleted accounts as well?
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#12If it's publicly posted, it literally means that everybody can read it. What's exactly the issue here?
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#13Was "public" ever the default setting? I remember it as being opt-in if you ever wanted something to show beyond your friends-of-friends.
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#14Funny to think that the distillation of 16 years of Facebook posts is now considered "intelligence."
This made me chuckle.
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#15Is this true for posts from people with deactivated/deleted accounts as well?
Unlikely:
>We don’t use posts or comments with an audience other than Public for these purposes.
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#16I am very likely in the minority here, but I think AI SHOULD be trained on everything that is in the public sphere. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't trained on everything they had access to.
If it is trained on private information, then I would have issue with it.
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#17how is _anyone_ surprised by this?
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#18Why is this surprising? They’ve always done this. In fact I’d be surprised if they didn’t do this. Fwiw - llama is free to use. So I guess it’s a good enough return. I don’t use Facebook. I’m not sure if they can peek into WhatsApp messages.
yeah I'm surprised that anyone didn't see this coming. The amount of times i've heard, "this is all our customer data, perform on it," I would have about $5.
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#19I am very likely in the minority here, but I think AI SHOULD be trained on everything that is in the public sphere. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't trained on everything they had access to. If it is trained on private information, then I would have issue with it.
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#20If it's publicly posted, it literally means that everybody can read it. What's exactly the issue here?
It's also not used to learn facts about stuff: it's used to learn how language works and is used to describe the world.
The sum of all variants of human communication in text is pretty good for this and examples of wrong or different also matter: there was that article a few months ago about how a chemical prediction model performed better when it was also trained on invalid SMILES representations compared to totally sanitized datasets.