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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

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

wmeredith wrote: post #25
janalsncm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really make me think. If LI was just business profile, jobs board, and chat with recruiters, how much engineering would they need? I’m not saying to go Twitter mode and fire everybody, but certainly much less than now. So for that extra revenue from the feed, a lot of it will be eaten up by salaries for extra engineers. All of the extra work is going towards something largely viewed as useless. Zooming out, I bet…

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

I should read this. I really struggle with doing work which falls into this category. It’s bad for me, and even worse it strikes me as seriously problematic to society. I don’t want to earn money for nothing, even if most people involved feel as though that in itself is worthwhile. It has been a fairly significant factor in any struggle I’ve had finding work. I have to ask myself, is this a bullshit job? The answer is often yes.

I’ve recently remedied this to a degree by lowering salary expectations and looking in fields with a more scientific and practical basis in the products and outputs. Unfortunately I’m not a scientist, only a programmer, so my utility is seriously limited and finding work is quite a bit harder than if I were to stick within the SV startup scene.

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

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Post by m463 »

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.

When you said this somehow I thought of training an art ai on the giant state sponsored monuments of the world.

On linkedin your next resume will have the impact of mount rushmore, sitting lincoln or a soviet era workers monument. (The thinker will be censored out because of nudity) :)

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

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Post by altdataseller »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #30
givemeethekeys wrote: post #18

This is your kindly reminder that if you're not the customer, then you are the product, with an added caveat that, when it comes to social networks, you are always the product. I say that as a happy product, uhh, user of every social network out there.

LinkedIn actually has a lot of customers. I know many are free users, but it’s not like Facebook where the vast majority aren’t paying anything.

If you're not paying, you're the product.

If you're paying, you're also the product.

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Post by joshdavham »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #30
givemeethekeys wrote: post #18

This is your kindly reminder that if you're not the customer, then you are the product, with an added caveat that, when it comes to social networks, you are always the product. I say that as a happy product, uhh, user of every social network out there.

LinkedIn actually has a lot of customers. I know many are free users, but it’s not like Facebook where the vast majority aren’t paying anything.

I think it’s fair to say that you can be both ‘the product’ and a customer at the same time.
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