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Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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You have to be rather naive if you don't think these companies don't simply train on your prompts with or without your consent. They literally scrape everything - legal or not - and claim its fair use to train on, including straight piracy The idea that they'll steal from everyone except you is just wishful thinking

If you have an enterprise contract with them, the legal protections for the consumer is much higher… is what I’ve been told anyway

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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post #140

You have to be rather naive if you don't think these companies don't simply train on your prompts with or without your consent. They literally scrape everything - legal or not - and claim its fair use to train on, including straight piracy The idea that they'll steal from everyone except you is just wishful thinking

It would be catastrohic for any of the big labs if it came out that they were training on what was sold as private. I get this cynical conspiratorial energy, it fits the internet well, but I can assure you most people with even mild business sense would be intensely opposed to this idea. Well, except maybe Zuckerburg, but they don't really do enterprise anyway.

It would be catastrophic if they violated confidentiality blatantly, but that doesn't exclude learning of any description. For example, an ordinary human being can't fork a subagent for a particular client and wipe it afterwards. Humans can't stop themselves learning, so confidentiality can't ban all learning.

Instead, confidentiality includes not literally copying material, not using trade secrets or inventions, and not using knowledge of business dealings for your own purposes.

So, while I fully expect that the big labs don't train on private material to the extent that they do those things in a blatant way, it would not be surprising if they pushed the boundaries. Humans push the boundaries all the time.

Up until now, machines did not have judgement, so if you set up a machine in such a way that you hadn't ensured it couldn't violate contract, you were culpable. But now that they have some kind of judgement, maybe it's enough to avoid liability to tell it to obey the contract, even if you give it incentives not to. After all, that's how it works with human employees, isn't it?

Perhaps now we have machines that understand language, someone somewhere is working on getting them to understand "a nod and a wink" as well.

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My native-US-English speaker read: “disappointed that the Pro tier was opt ed -in to training on prompts by default” [and required manually opting out] “the Team tier was now also opt ed -in by default” [and required manually opting out] In context of each sentence and the larger comment, read smoothly here. Also - have seen more than one lively discussion on these phrases, since defaults can stick 95% of the time an…

It's understandable but it is technically inconsistent and dilutes the meaning of opt-in. Opt implies an active choice, so you never are opting for the default.

It's also simply bad writing regardless of what meaning the reader takes from it. "Enabled by default" or "Allowed by default" are much clearer and more natural phrasings without any connotations of the user having taken an action to express a choice.

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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post #151
post #140

You have to be rather naive if you don't think these companies don't simply train on your prompts with or without your consent. They literally scrape everything - legal or not - and claim its fair use to train on, including straight piracy The idea that they'll steal from everyone except you is just wishful thinking

If you have an enterprise contract with them, the legal protections for the consumer is much higher… is what I’ve been told anyway

Not sure what you are saying exactly, but

> the legal protections for the consumer is much higher

You know you give away the right to file class action law suits against Anthropic when you accept their Terms Of Use, right? (at least the Americans ones)

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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post #151
post #140

You have to be rather naive if you don't think these companies don't simply train on your prompts with or without your consent. They literally scrape everything - legal or not - and claim its fair use to train on, including straight piracy The idea that they'll steal from everyone except you is just wishful thinking

If you have an enterprise contract with them, the legal protections for the consumer is much higher… is what I’ve been told anyway

It isn't, in both cases you're protected by exactly the same legal system

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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post #140

You have to be rather naive if you don't think these companies don't simply train on your prompts with or without your consent. They literally scrape everything - legal or not - and claim its fair use to train on, including straight piracy The idea that they'll steal from everyone except you is just wishful thinking

It would be catastrohic for any of the big labs if it came out that they were training on what was sold as private. I get this cynical conspiratorial energy, it fits the internet well, but I can assure you most people with even mild business sense would be intensely opposed to this idea. Well, except maybe Zuckerburg, but they don't really do enterprise anyway.

I mean the models have literally trained on:

1. Child porn

2. Stolen music

3. Private github repos, before that was 'stopped'

4. Illegally pirated books

Them training on company prompts against the terms of service would be one of the least bad things that these companies have trained AI models on

Why do you think a company - willing to break the law for child porn - won't break the law when it comes to your personal data?

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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post #140

You have to be rather naive if you don't think these companies don't simply train on your prompts with or without your consent. They literally scrape everything - legal or not - and claim its fair use to train on, including straight piracy The idea that they'll steal from everyone except you is just wishful thinking

It would be catastrohic for any of the big labs if it came out that they were training on what was sold as private. I get this cynical conspiratorial energy, it fits the internet well, but I can assure you most people with even mild business sense would be intensely opposed to this idea. Well, except maybe Zuckerburg, but they don't really do enterprise anyway.

It's going to be the same as PRISM, people will be outraged and business will go back as usual.

(And they totally won't do it again they swear, the contract says so)

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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post #151
post #140

You have to be rather naive if you don't think these companies don't simply train on your prompts with or without your consent. They literally scrape everything - legal or not - and claim its fair use to train on, including straight piracy The idea that they'll steal from everyone except you is just wishful thinking

If you have an enterprise contract with them, the legal protections for the consumer is much higher… is what I’ve been told anyway

If you have an enterprise contract with them you're still unlikely to ever know that you've been lied to unless some whistleblower at the AI company comes forward and even if you do somehow find out, it's too late. Once they have your data and have trained on it there's no taking it back. At most they'll pay out some tiny settlement that's a fraction of how much money they make in a week and they'll continue to profit from your data forever.

Re: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be catastrohic for any of the big labs if it came out that they were training on what was sold as private. I get this cynical conspiratorial energy, it fits the internet well, but I can assure you most people with even mild business sense would be intensely opposed to this idea. Well, except maybe Zuckerburg, but they don't really do enterprise anyway.

exactly, I don't understand how HN doesn't understand this by this logic every business contract in tech is just a bunch of lies and means nothing and the only way to do anything is to have a server sitting next to you, otherwise it's "someone else's computer"

I mean, they've already violated the law in acquiring all their training data already, why would they be uncomfortable violating a contract to get more training data?
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