Why should a company get to use my work and data for free to train their AI, for which they’ll make a ton of money, without compensating me. At a minimum they should be informing me so I can make that choice with full knowledge.
This isn’t a university or educational research either, this is one of the largest companies in the world with Billions of dollars in annual revenue. And to top it off, I already have to pay them for their operating system and annually for their office suite. So not only am I paying them for their product, they’ll then steal my data to train an AI to try and sell that to us too?
That’s not even taking into account any concerns with “AI might replace me at my job” that a number of folks have.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, you could argue that by signing up for their services you give them perpetual permissions to do what they want with your data, which is what usually happens, but the issue already lies in that this is acceptable to begin with