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Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

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Re: Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

#31

Lol, what a weak defense. Fine, ban your competitors when they pay $20 per peek at your training data

This is not what they are protecting against. They are worried about it leaking personal information or copyrighted material.

Sorry, my message is full of snark - that's not really my point... they're wagging their finger at people they intend on (and are...) stopping.

It's obviously malicious, warning seems like window dressing

Re: Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

#32
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Publicly available PII isn’t very sensitive, I think. So I feel like it’s important to distinguish between sensitive PII (my social or bank number) and non-sensitive PII (my name and phone number scraped from my public web site). The former is really bad, both to train on and to divulge. The latter is not bad at all and not even remarkable, unless tied to something else making it sensitive (eg, hiv status from a medi…

How's your bank number a sensitive information?

Re: Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had no problem using Microsoft's toil for free by downloading free windows ISOs all my life, so if they want to pirate my Github code it's not bad enough to care about. Besides the bad practices the model might internalize as a result that is

Then speak for yourself, because I have been using Linux as a daily driver for almost my whole life. I do not want corporate behemoths to profit from my work for free. Period.

Good for you, don't post your code on GitHub then, as they have an express terms of service about being able to use code submitted for business purposes, including AI model training.

Re: Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then speak for yourself, because I have been using Linux as a daily driver for almost my whole life. I do not want corporate behemoths to profit from my work for free. Period.

Good for you, don't post your code on GitHub then, as they have an express terms of service about being able to use code submitted for business purposes, including AI model training.

I do not. Not any more. Which is not the GitHub I first joined.

And to sprinkle in a bit of ad hominem, I am aware that things regarding rules or ethics are viewed differently in your culture, and that is okay.

Re: Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good for you, don't post your code on GitHub then, as they have an express terms of service about being able to use code submitted for business purposes, including AI model training.

I do not. Not any more. Which is not the GitHub I first joined. And to sprinkle in a bit of ad hominem, I am aware that things regarding rules or ethics are viewed differently in your culture, and that is okay.

I am not sure what you mean by "my culture," what are you basing that off of? Why would you knowingly and willingly add an ad hominem? Very strange behavior in discourse.

GitHub has always had such clauses, even if they were not explicit about AI model training in particular. It is best to self host your own git instance if you are so worried.

Re: Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words 'Forever' Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

#36
post #32
post #23

Publicly available PII isn’t very sensitive, I think. So I feel like it’s important to distinguish between sensitive PII (my social or bank number) and non-sensitive PII (my name and phone number scraped from my public web site). The former is really bad, both to train on and to divulge. The latter is not bad at all and not even remarkable, unless tied to something else making it sensitive (eg, hiv status from a medi…

How's your bank number a sensitive information?

It along with the expiration date, security code and other info can be used to make purchases.
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