I'm so glad I left linkedin years ago and never went back.
I get a spike of anxiety if I even see the LinkedIn name in an email header.
LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
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#72Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#73Please no.. trash in - trash out!
Also, you don’t need to train anything, you can generate a very “successful” LinkedIn post easily:
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think it’s fair to say that you can be both ‘the product’ and a customer at the same time.
That’s totally fair and likely very common the more I think about it.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you're not paying, you're the product. If you're paying, you're also the product.
You’re right, this is probably true quite often.
Take payroll companies. Their customers pay a lot for the service and in all but one case I’m aware of, the customers’ data is being sold.
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#76EU here, I don't have this option in Settings.
Can confirm, I am from the EU (PL) and don't see such option.
But I saw one that mentions passing data to third parties for "social, economic, and workplace research" and I took the opportunity to switch that off.
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#77> I recommend opting out now Little point. It'll be like facebook's opt-out and only cover things you post/update going forward. Everything you've already posted has already been slurped into the training set and won't be taken out and the model(s) retrained. The only way to show disapproval in this sort of behaviour that they'll feel is to stop using services that use auto-opt-in for anything, and not enough people…
I wonder how this works if someone in a GDPR country got slurped up somehow. Could they demand the entire LLM be deleted?
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#78Somehow 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.
LinkedIn strikes me as the adult equivalent of self conscious school kids trying to hold a conversation among themselves, each self consciously trying to sound cool.
School kids would seem less disingenuous about their virtue signalling though.
Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
#79Somehow 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.
It's the AI where 996 or 80 work weeks are the norm.