An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
This has been discussed elsewhere, and by people smarter than I, but chat bots are going to start learning from other chat bots and it’s going to be less and less reliable over time, no?
Like there is an internet BEFORE ChatGPT, which is about as reliable of data as one could hope to find, and then there is a post day one chatgpt, which the data is already getting polluted by random LLM gibberish. How is google’s webscraping going to know if the data it is getting is legitimate human being thoughts, or just random madeup shit from a LLM?
There was an article recently about this (too lazy to search it). It’s already starting to happen. If most of the content they train on is the internet and more internet content is created by LLMs without being tagged as AI generated content (can’t be guaranteed by all actors), then it’s inevitable. High signal training data is out the window.
likely they would limit training data to only include pre-2020 or earlier to avoid this
Then you run into the problem of having outdated information. As more AI generated content pollutes the internet and more time passes the problem will only become more severe.
There are experiments with feeding LLMs output of other LLMs and the results are awful. Seems for now they can only generate sensible text if fed human output.
Right, but if they are training all new AI on shit they find online, like this comment, wouldn’t that pollute that dataset, considering I generated this comment with AI?
considering I generated this comment with AI?
Woah
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not lmao
It was… perhaps?
Your comment seems too intelligent to be AI generated.
Guilty.
Does this include emails as well? If so, I guess I’ll have to migrate over to another email service.
Gmail has scanned your emails, and those sent to you, since the day the service went live. It is part of the Ts and Cs.
I don’t think they belong to the company any more than the words you read belong to you
Exactly, this reads like hysteria. If you’ve placed your words on a public website, it’s a shocked Pikachu moment when someone (or in the case of an AI-in-training something) reads those words. It’s basic fair use.
If someone put up a billboard with some text on it and then got angry whenever someone else read it I would question their sanity. Even if that “someone” was the Google street view car.
