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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

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Post by JohnMakin »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #98
JohnMakin wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That’s a fair point. I don’t care about karma either but try to use it as a signal as to whether I’m making good contributions to the site or not, which is usually fairly reliable. Maybe I should have included a list of my favorite follows, had considered that, but it’d probably out me more than I’d like.

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

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Post by fy20 »

janalsncm wrote: post #23
lordnacho wrote: post #14

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.…

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…

LinkedIn also have tools for recruiters and sales folks to find people. I believe this is where a big part of their revenues come from (they are paid tools). Although, again I cannot imagine it being that complicated.

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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

raffraffraff wrote: post #26
siva7 wrote: post #12

Somehow 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…

I mean, write me a shitpost isn’t an empty customer set.

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

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Post by unraveller »

itpragmatik wrote: post #95

Why is this a surprise/shock and news?! Obviously- every company wants to leverage data they have to train whatever llm model they may have.

They scraped user data. It's worse than that time political campaigns targeted voters.

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

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Post by fredski42 »

telesilla wrote: post #17
rdhyee wrote: post #15

I can get to that setting (when logged in) at https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...

This tells me that the page does not exist (apparently because I'm in a GDPR region that doesn't allow this behavior from LinkedIn, I understand now from reading this thread).

Same here. I live in a GDPR country.

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

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Post by Spooky23 »

siva7 wrote: post #12

Somehow 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.

I, for one, am humbled that LinkedIn AI has selected my content to model further engagement with other stakeholders.

I learned this while considering watching a video from MIT. Accordingly, I’m adding “AI Training Coordinator — MIT Inspired” to my skills.

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

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Post by klyrs »

raffraffraff wrote: post #26
siva7 wrote: post #12

Somehow 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…

Can't wait 'til it gets raunchy in everybody's DMs unprompted, just like the training data...
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