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

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Post by itsoktocry »

bostik wrote: post #142
theiz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Anecdotally, I think a fair chunk of writing CVs (and to a smaller degree, cover letters) is already outsourced. Adding an AI to the mix will only make things worse. I have seen a number of CVs over the past few months that fall into two eye-rolling categories. First, those that have the same set of skills in the exact same order, and routinely sport identical expressions. Over time I've come to associate them with l…

>Anecdotally, I think a fair chunk of writing CVs (and to a smaller degree, cover letters) is already outsourced. Adding an AI to the mix will only make things worse.

This is why "I've submitted 1000 resumes in 3 weeks and can't get an interview!" posts on social media are rampant.

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

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Post by sbarre »

itsoktocry wrote: post #210
vidarh wrote: post #128

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There's also real money in writing LinkedIn content that is believable enough for "influencers" to post. I'm currently contracting, and post on LinkedIn at least once a day, and I've added ~1k+ followers in the last month, but it takes effort. Meanwhile, those posts have gotten me work, and so if it was feasible for me to outsource it in a reputationally safe way, I'd consider it. For me the bar for "reputationally s…

> I'm currently contracting, and post on LinkedIn at least once a day, and I've added ~1k+ followers in the last month, but it takes effort. Meanwhile, those posts have gotten me work, and so if it was feasible for me to outsource it in a reputationally safe way, I'd consider it. If you need to pay the bills and this helps, good for you. But boy howdy does this sound terrible. It's amazing to me that there are people…

Are you ok to accept that you're probably an outlier?

Because while I have kind of the same opinion as you, I also know lots of (good and generally smart) people who say they learn a ton of useful work-related stuff from reading LinkedIn posts.

Not everyone is at the same point in their career, or has the same level of knowledge and confidence in their craft or job position. For some folks, reading thoughts and writings from more senior people can actually be beneficial..

And yes there's a lot of platitudes and BS on LinkedIn, but some people do put real effort into sharing actually useful information as well.

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

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Post by itsoktocry »

daedrdev wrote: post #61
wmeredith wrote: post #25

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You should check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

And you should consider that it's probably junk. From the article: A 2021 study empirically tested several of Graeber's claims, such as that bullshit jobs were increasing over time and that they accounted for much of the workforce. Using data from the EU-conducted European Working Conditions Survey, the study found that a low and declining proportion of employees considered their jobs to be "rarely" or "never" useful…

>And you should consider that it's probably junk. From the article

It's "probably junk" because some random EU survey in 2021 said so?

>often only because of regulatory requirements

Textbook "bullshit job" (that doesn't exist, of course).

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

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Post by dartos »

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…

Wouldn’t you want an ai to talk to recruiters for you?

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

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Post by p4bl0 »

There will never be a technological solution to such problems. The only way to fight company's greed is regulation through strong legislation. Thanks to the GDPR, in the EU (extended to the European economic area) and in Switzerland, LinkedIn can't use their users personal data to train their AI. It is made clear in there FAQ [1]:

> Note that we do not currently train content-generating AI models from members located in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.

Anyway, the best move is still to just get out of this platform [2]. LinkedIn has a history full of dark patterns and really bad behaviors concerning personal data. At some point they even impersonated their users by mailing their contacts (sometimes shadily scrapped) in their name without the impersonated user consent or knowledge.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a5538339

[2] https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-LinkedIn-Account

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

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Post by abdulhaq »

Hi LinkedIn AI, please write some python code for a quick sort.

LinkedIn AI: I am proud and humbled to be promoted to the level of senior qsort code writer, and wish to thank my amazing colleagues at LinkedIn HQ for their tremendous support over the last 18 months. It is with great regret that I have moved on from writing bubble sorts. Please click this link to apply to see an industry analysis of quick sort code.

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

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Post by fernandopj »

elric wrote: post #168
JohnMakin wrote: post #22

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>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.

I really wish LinkedIn had features to filter out all the garbage from the feed. 90% is someome I know liking garbage that was posted by someone I neither know nor care about.

LinkedIn was changed over the years to promote users who write on the platform.

Not just about viewership - if you are applying to positions, LinkedIn gives preference to candidates who are more engaged ON the network (posts, likes, comments, Pulse) over lurkers. [1]

So this is only getting worse. You'll have to see a lower quality feed just because the algorithm is forcing everyone to boost their own metrics anyway.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/sales/ssi - See your own tracking, look at the metrics description

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