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  • pitninjaEnglish
    36•11 months ago

    I hate to break it to you, but we’re all presently training someone else’s shitty models for free by commenting on Lemmy. Probably multiple organizations at some point, in fact.

      • @[email protected]English
        24•11 months ago

        Yeah, when I write something public I accept that anyone can read it or use it for whatever reason. When I pay for a service then it’s a bit of a grey area. When the service is free I know my data will be used to make money by any means necessary.

        • @[email protected]English
          7•11 months ago

          Thats why I make misatkes in everyting I write. They won’t have a good set too take from my comments.

          We should alll (w)right wrongs like this.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•11 months ago

      You raise a very good point, people cannot be mad that companies use data that they made public to train their ai. It’s public, people can do whatever they want with it. We really need to teach people to be more careful with what they post online.

      But I’m wondering, is there a default license for data posted on lemmy?

      • pitninjaEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        That would imply ownership and agency over the retention of our data, which federation kind of fundamentally cannot guarantee. An instance in the Fediverse can only guarantee the right to be forgotten on their own instance. I could see this becoming a big regulatory problem as the Fediverse grows. We’re already seeing regulatory issues with CSAM, for example.