X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨skilledtothegills@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://stackdiary.com/x-can-now-use-posts-for-ai-training-as-per-terms-of-service/

Here’s the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn’t entirely new; we’ve heard stories of shadow banning on Twitter before. But the automation and AI involvement are making it more sophisticated and all-encompassing.

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BioDriver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Man that’s gonna be one stupid AI

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And one Nazi AI.
  
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  - Gatsby@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    NazAI, if you will.
    
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  - BioDriver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t understand the difference
    
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coheedcollapse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Stuff like this is my biggest reason to believe that the current anti-ai movement is incredibly misled.

They want to stop open scraping, but if they’re successful, only companies like Twitter, Google, Disney, Getty, Adobe, whatever, are going to have their own closed systems that they’ll either charge for or keep themselves to replace workers, instead of the tech being open to all of us.

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- SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m not anti-AI but the movement is highly against mega corp scrapping personal data as well, not just open scrapping.
  
  As a simple example Co-Pilot has been under heavy fire from the anti-ai community for a while now due to the usage of open licensed code without attribution.
  
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  - coheedcollapse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    But it won’t matter, because a mega corp scraping data is going to put it into their TOS and literally zero percent of these people are going to get off Twitter or Bluesky or whatever big website that has an exemption to whatever law is passed to stop the scraping of data.
    
    The only groups who will suffer will be researchers, open source software builders, and pretty much anyone who isn’t a corporation already.
    
    There’s literally no solution to this that will end with everyone being 100% happy, but keeping the open internet open and continuing this idea that has pretty much persisted from the beginning of the internet, that whatever you put out there is fair game for viewing, is ideal compared to the alternative.
    
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- Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Isn’t most of the issue people have open scraping and using it to create copyeritten content that they then sell back to us? It’s not just the scraping, but that they also want to own the output.
  
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  - coheedcollapse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s controversial, to be sure, but I’ve always been of the mind that if someone wants to do something transformative to one of my works, they’ve generated something different, despite being “inspired” by my work.
    
    ML gens are transformative by nature, so I don’t think my work being one of millions of datapoints used to create something is a huge deal.
    
    That said, I’m also an advocate of preservation through piracy, so I’d be a hypocrite if I wanted to go copyright mad at bots for looking at images I uploaded on the public internet.
    
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- ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Nope, the AI race will be win by whoever goes the lowest, unless they're being stopped.
  
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RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Here is an idea. Leave twitter. Then just ignore it.

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confluence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Well LLMs are about to get a lot less reasonable.

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- TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Garbage in, garbage out
  
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MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Twitter has been selling their entire database for years. Those that purchased the data have likely been doing everything with it already.

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vluz@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
HateLLM will be a smash. /s

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ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Training AI to shitpost, lol.

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JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
New model to be called ChatKKK.

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lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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argo_yamato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Left twitter a few months ago and it seems like everyday there is a new reason that made leaving a good call

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RVGamer06@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Killing the free API and limiting daily tweets to counter “extreme scraping”…lmao

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b3an@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Many people might overlook the importance of the fact that a significant portion of cutting-edge tools, including ‘A.I.’, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Stable Diffusion (SD), are grounded in open source. This approach has led to a broad spectrum of contributors, ranging from novices to experts, who are diving into these technologies and pushing their boundaries every day.

Among the various projects and platforms, Meta’s contribution is noteworthy. Not necessarily because of altruism, but for their strategic decision to release Llama 2 as open source.

It’s natural for people to feel a mix of intrigue and caution towards new technologies; while they’re perhaps attracted by the novelty, there’s also an inherent fear about the potential unknowns. This duality reflects human nature to seek progress, while also being wary of unforeseen consequences.

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Skoobie@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So not shadow banning so much as putting feeds thru a kaleidoscope 😂

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