Joke's on them because I use AI to generate LI content.
LinkedIn content only had a thin veneer of humanity before the onslaught of LLMs anyways.
LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
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Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#22LinkedIn is an business card / CV storage site, where you can find a job. If it was just a bunch of linked profiles with a job matching function, it would still be LinkedIn. But of course, you can't work at a place that does something that mundane without suggesting something that makes you look like Facebook or Twitter. You have to at least give people some sort of reason to see what their old colleagues are up to.…
>Nobody really wants to read the LinkedIn feed,
I mean, not nobody. I follow a lot of people that post very thoughtful things that spark discussion, and it's one of the only places I know of other than here where I can discuss topics related to my career or field with peers, and for me that's useful.
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#23LinkedIn is an business card / CV storage site, where you can find a job. If it was just a bunch of linked profiles with a job matching function, it would still be LinkedIn. But of course, you can't work at a place that does something that mundane without suggesting something that makes you look like Facebook or Twitter. You have to at least give people some sort of reason to see what their old colleagues are up to.…
It really make me think. If LI was just business profile, jobs board, and chat with recruiters, how much engineering would they need? I’m not saying to go Twitter mode and fire everybody, but certainly much less than now. So for that extra revenue from the feed, a lot of it will be eaten up by salaries for extra engineers. All of the extra work is going towards something largely viewed as useless.
Zooming out, I bet a lot of the economy is like this. In LI’s case literally some of the smartest people, people with PhDs who were maybe even born in another country, thinking for 40 hours a week about how to rank one piece of meaningless drivel above another one. This is instead of solving real, tangible problems that everyone can see. Ok maybe those people will pay taxes and end up contributing to something like education because they have to, but it’s a pretty inefficient way of making the world better.
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#24Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#25LinkedIn is an business card / CV storage site, where you can find a job. If it was just a bunch of linked profiles with a job matching function, it would still be LinkedIn. But of course, you can't work at a place that does something that mundane without suggesting something that makes you look like Facebook or Twitter. You have to at least give people some sort of reason to see what their old colleagues are up to.…
It really make me think. If LI was just business profile, jobs board, and chat with recruiters, how much engineering would they need? I’m not saying to go Twitter mode and fire everybody, but certainly much less than now. So for that extra revenue from the feed, a lot of it will be eaten up by salaries for extra engineers. All of the extra work is going towards something largely viewed as useless. Zooming out, I bet…
You should check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#26Somehow i feel sad for this AI model. All the others are trained on authentic content and this boy gets socialised on the most shallow content imaginable. Poor, socially awkward AI.
Why on earth would you train AI on that? In the social media world it's already the closest thing resembling boring, unreadable machine generated content.
No matter what you ask it, it'll brag about what a great job it's doing answering you, announce that it's having a baby, then tell everybody that it's being let go because there are better AI. It'll thank a few key people who it worked with, and tell you that it's actually thrilled with this opportunity to take a break from answering your question, and will spend more time on its old hobby of being an online resume.
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#27A bot trained on LinkedIn content. Good God.
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#28Somehow i feel sad for this AI model. All the others are trained on authentic content and this boy gets socialised on the most shallow content imaginable. Poor, socially awkward AI.
The /r/LinkedInLunatics/ subreddit is going to get swamped with all the new content this monster generates.
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#29Somehow i feel sad for this AI model. All the others are trained on authentic content and this boy gets socialised on the most shallow content imaginable. Poor, socially awkward AI.
> Somehow i feel sad for this AI model.
it will be the first AI CEO.
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#30This is your kindly reminder that if you're not the customer, then you are the product, with an added caveat that, when it comes to social networks, you are always the product. I say that as a happy product, uhh, user of every social network out there.
LinkedIn actually has a lot of customers. I know many are free users, but it’s not like Facebook where the vast majority aren’t paying anything.