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But the AI has already got it. The AI is living rent free in all our heads.
by JimtheCoder 3y ago
But the AI has already got it.
The AI is living rent free in all our heads.
- JohnFen 3y agoThey may have got what was already there, but I can prevent further contributions. That's important to me. > The AI is living rent free in all our heads. I don't understand what you mean here.
- JimtheCoder 3y agoI mean the threat of AI is messing with our minds and making us do potentially irrational things. Taking your knowledge down from the web, thus not allowing other humans to benefit from it (which was probably the reason you posted it in the first place) because it may be included in LLM training dataset...may be an overreaction at this point...
- JohnFen 3y agoAh, I understand. My reaction may or may not be rational. It's too soon to say. But right now, I think this tech poses a risk well in excess of the potential benefit. I'd rather feel foolish later on when I open my sites again than to regret contributing to something that does harm. After all, I can always put my stuff back up, but once my data contributes to the training, I can't undo that. To be honest, I'm far from convinced that this tech will have anywhere near the impact that proponents believe it will. But I'm pretending the proponents are correct anyway out of an abundance of caution. Nobody, especially me, actually knows what the impact is going to be.
- pawelmurias 3y agoThe impact of blocking your site from the AI will be zero
- JohnFen 3y agoWell, obviously not zero (if it were zero, then nobody would be scraping the web for the data), but very nearly zero, yes. I agree with that. But blocking AI scrapers does give me some peace of mind.
- yunwal 3y agoI'm sure the AI is reading your HN comments
- JohnFen 3y agoI'm sure that you're right, but I'm less concerned about that (obviously).