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Ask HN: AI exhaust is probably worth something to you or someone else

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Ask HN: AI exhaust is probably worth something to you or someone else

#1
Every prompt, chat, and newsletter I burn through says a lot about how I think and work, but right now it's just sitting in 10 different tools doing nothing. Been wondering if people would pool theirs, either to get something useful back like a model that actually knows you, or to sell it to whoever's paying for this kind of data. Dumb idea or is there something here?

Re: Ask HN: AI exhaust is probably worth something to you or someone else

#2
Every tracker is likely chomping at the bit to purchase your chats. I don't know but also would not be surprised to find out that every major player already sells this data. Cloud computing at some level is just an information broker extraction tool.

I would not pool my data with others nor sell it if I knew how to prevent such things from happening though I do believe they are happening.

Re: Ask HN: AI exhaust is probably worth something to you or someone else

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Every tracker is likely chomping at the bit to purchase your chats. I don't know but also would not be surprised to find out that every major player already sells this data. Cloud computing at some level is just an information broker extraction tool. I would not pool my data with others nor sell it if I knew how to prevent such things from happening though I do believe they are happening.

You are right, its likely happening. The pitch I'm chewing on is flipping that: you own the pipe, you decide if anything leaves, and if it does you get paid instead of the platform. Curious what would make you trust a setup like that, or is it a hard no regardless? Maybe you also get to see what sort of PII data you have and the platform sanitizes it...