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This is true. Some on HN call it out as "trite" or not exactly 100% technically correct, but the phrase re-focuses attention on a dangerous situation. trite (1
by j_s 10y ago
This is true. Some on HN call it out as "trite" or not exactly 100% technically correct, but the phrase re-focuses attention on a dangerous situation.
trite (1 week ago; gray): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14181650
original/oldest source? (2010) https://twitter.com/andlewis/status/24380177712 https://twitter.com/andlewis/status/24380177712
updated for machine learning: https://twitter.com/chrisalbon/status/857609299731791872 https://twitter.com/chrisalbon/status/857609299731791872
> “You are the training data.”
- moogly 10y agoMyself, I always recognized it from Chomsky's old quote about the mainstream media (1993): > Whether they're called 'liberal' or 'conservative,' the major media are large corporations, owned by and interlinked with even larger conglomerates. Like other corporations, they sell a product to a market. The market is advertisers — that is, other businesses. The product is audiences.