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[โ€“] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why everyone is all shocked all of a sudden, there have been various scraper bots collecting text info for...many years now, LONG before LLMs came onto the scene.

[โ€“] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I agree, but it's one thing if I post to public places like Lemmy or Reddit and it gets scraped.

It's another thing if my private DMs or private channels are being scraped and put into a database that will most likely get outsourced for prepping the data for training.

Not only that, but the trained model will have internal knowledge of things that are sure to give anxiety to any cyber security experts. If users know how to manipulate the AI model, they could cause the model to divulge some of that information.