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Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

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post #46

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Because there is a huge market for resume builders and career guidance where AI can play a role. Using LinkedIn you can measure success and network performance and correlate that to the resume and posted content.

I was going to say that it's the streetlight effect but this makes even more sense.

LinkedIn, like GitHub and (to a degree) OpenAI are under Microsoft’s umbrella.

Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

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> 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?

IANAL so only guessing here, and not even particularly educated guessing, but I suspect the LLM trainers' legal team will use the same set of defences/excuses/ignorance-because-their-client-can-afford-the-legal-fees-going-forward-and-the-other-side-can't that are being used against cases based on copyright & licensing issues.

Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

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LinkedIn 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.

Lol, why is this getting downvoted? You want empirical evidence? You think this is made up? I’ve literally gotten contracts based on discussions I’ve had on my linkedin feed. Maybe your feed sucks or you have nothing interesting to say. It is far easier to curate a linkedin feed than ANY other social media app out there.

Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

Lol, why is this getting downvoted? You want empirical evidence? You think this is made up? I’ve literally gotten contracts based on discussions I’ve had on my linkedin feed. Maybe your feed sucks or you have nothing interesting to say. It is far easier to curate a linkedin feed than ANY other social media app out there.

I don’t care that much for karma, but I have a feeling every comment on this entire article is getting downvoted

Re: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

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post #87

Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right? I don't mean fake users (although I wouldn't put corporate greed beyond trying to fake users). It could be sold as a helpful feature, like summaries of workplace happenings, news, world events, or discussions on the platform in the feeds. Of…

> Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right?

It is already happening with engagement farming users, so a platform doing it to make itself look more active is not a stretch at all. Reddit did that sort of astroturfing the old fashioned way back when it was starting up, so there is at least one well documented precedent already.

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