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Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

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> Indexing by search engines is fully suppressed by robots.txt

Ah yes, the companies that have ignored robots.txt to scrape your website for 20+ years will now not totally, most definitely not ignore (wink wink) polite requests to not use your data for AI training. Also, haven't Meta employees been complicit in getting teenagers addicted to social media and violations of PII until they got caught?

Respect goes out to mathematicians and their Leiden Declaration, which is an actual level-headed approach given the complexities of AI training and usage.

Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

#4
If I was Mark my answer would be “or what?” These people already work at a vile company. Which means they sold out already. If what mark does to other people doesn’t bother them they probably won’t have the backbone to leave if he says pound sand. “Oh it’s ok if you do it to other people just not me.” Get bent.

Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

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Oh man, a petition. Now stage a walk out, maybe a protest. They’re all equally effective.

If you think walkouts or protests don’t do anything, you might want to brush up on history. Or maybe discover it. Google is your friend. I mean everything from suffrage to organized labor to civil rights in the US was the result of massive coordinated action. You do know that right? Maybe even read up on Gandhi, or more recently French labor protests.

Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

#7

Oh man, a petition. Now stage a walk out, maybe a protest. They’re all equally effective.

If you think walkouts or protests don’t do anything, you might want to brush up on history. Or maybe discover it. Google is your friend. I mean everything from suffrage to organized labor to civil rights in the US was the result of massive coordinated action. You do know that right? Maybe even read up on Gandhi, or more recently French labor protests.

If you think they’re effective in this current day and age you should also read the news.

Thanks for the sermon though.

Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

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post #6

It’s a bit hard to feel sympathetic here. Those signing this petition actively enable and profit from one of the most pervasive surveillance networks ever built. Funny how much easier it is to tolerate something when it only affects other people.

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Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

#9

Oh man, a petition. Now stage a walk out, maybe a protest. They’re all equally effective.

If you think walkouts or protests don’t do anything, you might want to brush up on history. Or maybe discover it. Google is your friend. I mean everything from suffrage to organized labor to civil rights in the US was the result of massive coordinated action. You do know that right? Maybe even read up on Gandhi, or more recently French labor protests.

> Google is your friend

But really, it's more like tolerated business partner, right?

Re: Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

#10

Oh man, a petition. Now stage a walk out, maybe a protest. They’re all equally effective.

If you think walkouts or protests don’t do anything, you might want to brush up on history. Or maybe discover it. Google is your friend. I mean everything from suffrage to organized labor to civil rights in the US was the result of massive coordinated action. You do know that right? Maybe even read up on Gandhi, or more recently French labor protests.

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