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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

#181
You know for once, I'm not even that mad about something like this. Mostly because I literally never do anything on LinkedIn other than once in a month check my messages there.

I'd love to see the slew of AI-generated garbage, since it'll be completely indistinguishable from regular LI "content"!

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

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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…

A HR AI would be useful

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

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This is so weird, how is this legal? No other type of company just tacks on stuff to agreements and contracts and says “you want this” so how come US tech companies are always getting away with it?

Ironically, the same country in which corporations just won't shut up about "stifling regulations".

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

#188

> 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…

Not if you live in Europe, thanks to strong privacy legislation.

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

#189

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 is a shame. Twitter used to be quite a popular platform for (useful and interesting) networking in academia, but after it began to fall apart everyone started looking for alternatives. I felt that LinkedIn should be a decent alternative as it could strike that balance between professional and personal content, but there is just no way for a genuine community to develop on LinkenIn in its current form. Even now Lin…

LinkedIn has turned into Facebook before it became irrelevant - people sharing their irrelevant life episodes and baby pictures.

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

#190

I pay for LinkedIn Premium, and I was just "opted in". This disregard for your customers is very typical now. Not even a "how do you do" or a popup informing me of this change to my "preferences".

What do you use premium for? Apart from linkedin learning, I found no valid use. I was getting fake messages which are literally just ads even when I had premium.
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