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A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people's data to train AI (www.businessinsider.com)

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A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people's data to train AI::More companies are quietly giving themselves permission to use consumer data to train generative AI models and tools.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm actually fine with it, in the case of Lemmy this is all public data, whether or not Lemmy admins are training AI on it, there is nothing to stop me from training my own AI models with this data.

I think the larger issue is I don't consider it "your data" once you put it on one of these sites. As soon as you take your own thought and put it on facebook/instagram/reddit/whatever, it's now theirs, it lives in their databases, and frankly for a social media company it's probably their most valuable asset.

No one is forcing anyone to use social media, if you want your thoughts and actions to be your own I would recommend not putting them on the internet.