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LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
- mensetmanusman 2y agoAn AI that understands exactly who the main talent is across the global supply chain will be very valuable.
- cratermoon 2y agoIt could be, but current "ai" doesn't "understand" anything, and this model isn't it.
- kombookcha 2y agoThat's not a thing a contemporary LLM can do. At best it will be able to know which buzzwords are popular, which will then immediately deteriorate their usefulness once everybody starts generating AI-optimized noise for their LinkedIn profiles.
- koolala 2y agoMake money. Build chips. Eat electricity.
- AthJa 2y agoI'm so glad I left linkedin years ago and never went back.
- klondike_klive 2y agoI get a spike of anxiety if I even see the LinkedIn name in an email header.
- corytheboyd 2y agoI also deleted about 1-2 years ago. I’ve been wondering if I will regret it next time I am looking for work. Have you been in that position yet? I am seeking validation that I didn’t screw my future self over lol. Despite how truly awful the platform is, it’s still ubiquitous…
- nashashmi 2y agoHow was working for LinkedIn?
- tomkat0789 2y agothe new way all these online services suck
- baal80spam 2y agoEU here, I don't have this option in Settings.
- seqizz 2y agoYeah same, I am so sad about the things we miss here because of GDPR.
- eterm 2y agoUK here, and I do have that setting. Despite the UK still having the data protection act.
- krick 2y agoMe too, but I wonder if it's actually a GDPR perk or maybe some regional A/B kind of thing. Or whatever. I mean, I am not sure if it's a good news or a bad news.
- fhd2 2y agoPerhaps it's not about whether there's regulation in place, but about how afraid LI is of it being enforced?
- jacekm 2y agoCan confirm, I am from the EU (PL) and don't see such option. But I saw one that mentions passing data to third parties for "social, economic, and workplace research" and I took the opportunity to switch that off.
- velokick 2y agogarbage in garbage out
- hprotagonist 2y agoshame nobody scraped them years ago! ... oh, wait.
- fidotron 2y agoBecause if there's one thing the world needs more of it's LinkedIn feed spam.
- Hnrobert42 2y agoJoke's on them because I use AI to generate LI content.
- Hamuko 2y agoLinkedIn content only had a thin veneer of humanity before the onslaught of LLMs anyways.
- minkles 2y agoHumanity is pushing it. There are some serious lunatics on there.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y ago[flagged]
- nicbou 2y agoJoke's on them because my LinkedIn content is devoid of intelligence
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoJokes on you because nobody else’s content is intelligent either.
- ChrisArchitect 2y ago[dupe] An actual article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/linkedin-scraped-user-data-for-training-before-updating-its-terms-of-service/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/linkedin-scraped-user-data... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582951)
- kklisura 2y agoFrom one of the tweets in the thread: > LinkedIn seems to have auto enrolled folks in the US, but hearing from folks in the EU that they are not seeing this listed in their settings (likely due to privacy regulations). Honestly, GDPR looks like a godsend! It came just at the right time!
- siva7 2y agoSomehow i feel sad for this AI model. All the others are trained on authentic content and this boy gets socialised on the most shallow content imaginable. Poor, socially awkward AI.
- throwanem 2y agoAre you kidding? If any model ever makes the x-risk folks' nightmares come true, it'll be this one.
- btown 2y agoVedal987 should work with LinkedIn to get access to this data, fine-tune Evil Neuro on LinkedIn posts, then have her read through business school case studies and offer advice. It would be content so unhinged, it would remove the need for management consulting as an industry - companies could simply type their problems in chat and do the exact opposite of what Evil LinkedIn Neuro suggests! (for the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/@Neurosama https://www.youtube.com/@Neurosama & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-sama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-sama)
- raffraffraff 2y agoWhy on earth would you train AI on that? In the social media world it's already the closest thing resembling boring, unreadable machine generated content. No matter what you ask it, it'll brag about what a great job it's doing answering you, announce that it's having a baby, then tell everybody that it's being let go because there are better AI. It'll thank a few key people who it worked with, and tell you that it's actually thrilled with this opportunity to take a break from answering your question, and will spend more time on its old hobby of being an online resume.
- theiz 2y agoBecause there is a huge market for resume builders and career guidance where AI can play a role. Using LinkedIn you can measure success and network performance and correlate that to the resume and posted content.
- lordnacho 2y agoLinkedIn is an business card / CV storage site, where you can find a job. If it was just a bunch of linked profiles with a job matching function, it would still be LinkedIn. But of course, you can't work at a place that does something that mundane without suggesting something that makes you look like Facebook or Twitter. You have to at least give people some sort of reason to see what their old colleagues are up to. Nobody really wants to read the LinkedIn feed, so it's perfectly acceptable that it gets flooded with AI generated content. In effect, the content on LinkedIn is that picture of a happy family on your insurance brochure. You can't not have a photo of something on that kind of marketing document, and you can't be a social network without some sort of doom-scrollable content. This is just a cheap way to generate some wallpaper.
- JohnMakin 2y ago>Nobody really wants to read the LinkedIn feed, I mean, not nobody. I follow a lot of people that post very thoughtful things that spark discussion, and it's one of the only places I know of other than here where I can discuss topics related to my career or field with peers, and for me that's useful.
- JohnMakin 2y agoLol, why is this getting downvoted? You want empirical evidence? You think this is made up? I’ve literally gotten contracts based on discussions I’ve had on my linkedin feed. Maybe your feed sucks or you have nothing interesting to say. It is far easier to curate a linkedin feed than ANY other social media app out there.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoI don’t care that much for karma, but I have a feeling every comment on this entire article is getting downvoted
- JohnMakin 2y agoThat’s a fair point. I don’t care about karma either but try to use it as a signal as to whether I’m making good contributions to the site or not, which is usually fairly reliable. Maybe I should have included a list of my favorite follows, had considered that, but it’d probably out me more than I’d like.
- rdhyee 2y agoI can get to that setting (when logged in) at https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...
- telesilla 2y agoThis tells me that the page does not exist (apparently because I'm in a GDPR region that doesn't allow this behavior from LinkedIn, I understand now from reading this thread).
- gopkarthik 2y agoThanks!
- Animats 2y agoBy "everyone", they mean LinkedIn customers, correct? Or is LinkedIn scraping the Web now?
- givemeethekeys 2y agoThis is your kindly reminder that if you're not the customer, then you are the product, with an added caveat that, when it comes to social networks, you are always the product. I say that as a happy product, uhh, user of every social network out there.
- yieldcrv 2y ago[flagged]
- steve_adams_86 2y agoLinkedIn actually has a lot of customers. I know many are free users, but it’s not like Facebook where the vast majority aren’t paying anything.
- altdataseller 2y agoIf you're not paying, you're the product. If you're paying, you're also the product.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoYou’re right, this is probably true quite often. Take payroll companies. Their customers pay a lot for the service and in all but one case I’m aware of, the customers’ data is being sold.
- joshdavham 2y agoI think it’s fair to say that you can be both ‘the product’ and a customer at the same time.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoThat’s totally fair and likely very common the more I think about it.
- paxys 2y agoA bot trained on LinkedIn content. Good God.
- qintl55 2y agoi just hate that they turned it on by default
- yumraj 2y agoThoughtLeader AI /s
- know-how 2y ago[dead]
- maplefarm 2y ago[flagged]
- pluc 2y agoI'm curious to hear from anyone who actually pays for LinkedIn, did they fuck you over too?
- kjellsbells 2y agoYup.
- coding123 2y agoSomeone filled in https://www.linkedin.com/not-applicable https://www.linkedin.com/not-applicable today on their job app, and I have to admit, that was clever. I don't personally like that we make that field required.
- htrp 2y agowait until someone takes that url as theirs
- joshdavham 2y agoIt might be cool if we eventually got some sort of a LinkedIn co-pilot to help with applying for jobs, but then again, who knows
- caseyy 2y agoWhat's so cool about competing with 5,000 low effort applications that can't be achieved right now competing with 50?
- peppertree 2y agoAI is about to learn what a tragic car accident can teach them about leadership and drop shipping.
- bagels 2y agoI can't wait to read more stories like that. Inspirational.
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- xarope 2y agosome of you are really good at this LI game... /j
- zmmmmm 2y agoDid the LinkedIn bot get loose early? I thought I was on LinkedIn for a second ...
- CoastalCoder 2y agoThis comment is going to be heavily downvoted, and it will be a tremendously discouraging phase of my life. But read on for what it taught me about B2B marketing.
- wiseowise 2y ago
- croes 2y agoWhat did they expect from a Microsoft company?
- jumploops 2y agoThis will be interesting. Because with a dataset like this... ...all the content will be below the imaginary "read more" fold!
- deepsquirrelnet 2y agoI wouldn’t have ever thought that LinkedIn feed content was written by real people if I hadn’t met some of them in real life. It’s a low enough bar that I think AI content will fit right in.
- elawler24 2y agoI met one of the PMs building this. She was working on NL unified search for the feed. I noticed it’s gotten way better in the last few weeks. Instead of using Google to search [first name][last name][“linkedin”], now i can reliably type my query into LinkedIn’s search bar and get the correct result. I’m a fan.
- nradov 2y agoSearch by name has worked well on LinkedIn since forever. If the person I'm looking for has an account then they're almost always in the first page of search results.
- dspillett 2y ago> I recommend opting out now Little point. It'll be like facebook's opt-out and only cover things you post/update going forward. Everything you've already posted has already been slurped into the training set and won't be taken out and the model(s) retrained. The only way to show disapproval in this sort of behaviour that they'll feel is to stop using services that use auto-opt-in for anything, and not enough people are likely to do that for it to be effective.
- bogdanstanciu 2y agoI wonder how this works if someone in a GDPR country got slurped up somehow. Could they demand the entire LLM be deleted?
- dspillett 2y agoIANAL so only guessing here, and not even particularly educated guessing, but I suspect the LLM trainers' legal team will use the same set of defences/excuses/ignorance-because-their-client-can-afford-the-legal-fees-going-forward-and-the-other-side-can't that are being used against cases based on copyright & licensing issues.
- aDyslecticCrow 2y agoA person from Sweden is here. The opt-out option doesn't exist in my setting. So it seems like they are targeting areas outside of the EU for this slurping, at least on the surface. Since I can never prove whether my data was included in the AI or not... they could slurp it regardless and claim ignorance until some internal whistleblower brings it to light.
- LadyCailin 2y agoNot if you live in Europe, thanks to strong privacy legislation.
- dspillett 2y agoI am currently covered by GDPR and such, though that is something that could easily change (I'm a UKian so no longer an EUian). But that isn't enforced with the teeth it really needs, and I really don't trust that companies like LinkedIn will do the right thing, nor the legally required thing where they differ, given how much effort it could be and the likelihood of anything being done about it if they don't and this isn't obviously detected (or a whistleblower speaks out). So my choice is to walkaway from the service (or never use it in the first place) or just accept that my stuff will get used that way. That, and given it is public information that we've already agreed to let LinkedIn use however the hell it likes via signup and “by continuing to use this service”¹, so there would be the whole “is it even a privacy issue?” argument² to have before getting to that nitty-gritty. ---- [1] again, maybe there are legal routes to stop that, though I don't know about you but I certainly can't afford the time or legal resources to investigate further [2] I'm assuming “right to be forgotten” doesn't apply in this case, as we are talking about a particular use of the information not wanting the complete removal of it from all their services.
- meindnoch 2y agoLinkedIn content? My god... poor AI.
- ugh123 2y agoJust visit r/LinkedInLunatics to get all the best LI content
- IOT_Apprentice 2y ago[flagged]
- ppeetteerr 2y agoCan't they just do what everyone else does and steal other sites' content?
- tamimio 2y agoPlease no.. trash in - trash out! Also, you don’t need to train anything, you can generate a very “successful” LinkedIn post easily: https://viralpostgenerator.taplio.com/ https://viralpostgenerator.taplio.com/
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoIt really pisses me off that privacy services (and push notification) are enabled by default. I’ve gone in and disabled virtually everything, it’s reasonable to deduce I value my privacy enough to do that, then I probably don’t want new enabled-by-default things in that category. I’m curious if LI has scraped data before giving people the opportunity to disable the feature.
- luxuryballs 2y agoso wait that means the model will be able to identify me in other data sets right
- motohagiography 2y agonice, AI trained on a nihilist corpus. it will be so stunning and brave.
- caseyy 2y agoSocial media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right? I don't mean fake users (although I wouldn't put corporate greed beyond trying to fake users). It could be sold as a helpful feature, like summaries of workplace happenings, news, world events, or discussions on the platform in the feeds. Of course, they would need to be filtered for ethical alignment with the social media company, as well as community safety, naturally... Certain political opinions may be less safe than others, and so on...
- morkalork 2y agoReddit founders created alts and posted with them to give the impression of a thriving community back in the beginning. Now that could all be automated. Bluesky will probably be the last "authentic" social media site, and even then, it's initial gain was from name recognition of the people starting it. From now on out ask yourself if you are joining a real community or something astroturfed.
- dspillett 2y ago> Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right? It is already happening with engagement farming users, so a platform doing it to make itself look more active is not a stretch at all. Reddit did that sort of astroturfing the old fashioned way back when it was starting up, so there is at least one well documented precedent already.
- recursivecaveat 2y agoPosting AI image spam to facebook, and producing tutorials about it are both tidy little cottage industries now. It is so voluminous and predictable that it's hard to believe facebook are not quietly giving it a pass as an arm's-length experiment on automated content.
- itpragmatik 2y agoWhy is this a surprise/shock and news?! Obviously- every company wants to leverage data they have to train whatever llm model they may have.
- unraveller 2y agoThey scraped user data. It's worse than that time political campaigns targeted voters.
- jacknews 2y agoPrepare to be flooded with trite aphorisms, vacuous top-10 lists, queeze-inducing personal announcements and 'acceptance' speeches, and other toxic positivity.
- cloudedcordial 2y agoAI will write the subreddit r/LinkedInLunatics content. It may be less cringey going forward.
- geodel 2y agoYes, finally a ThoughtLeaderAI. Will Turing test be able to differentiate between current CVs of LinkedIn users and the one to be generated by ThoughtLeaderAI.
- Shawnecy 2y agoHow will we ever tell the difference. Oh no.
- moomoo11 2y agoWell now we will have the most cringe AI model. Congrats to LinkedIn lol
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- ggm 2y agoAI detector score for sentences starting with "humbled by ..."
- rompledorph 2y agoIt will be a great leader and thinker…
- nnurmanov 2y agoI’ve been using AI to write my LI posts, technically it is AI trained on AI data:) How is it going to affect the quality?
- tomkarho 2y agoI would suggest that if LinkedIn is training their AI models on user data and content, users should get a copy of the said model free of charge. That or LinkedIn should at least be compelled to ask explicit permission for model training. None of this Darth Vader stuff where they "altered the deal".
- DaoVeles 2y agoUnfortunately, these businesses didn't get to the top by treating people ethically. Don't think they will start now.
- tempodox 2y agoIn their TOS they probably give themselves the right to do whatever the hell they want with the stuff you post there. If you store your data on someone else's computer, it's not yours any more, no matter how personal it is.
- 7373737373 2y agoTOS do not, in practice, constitute informed consent, especially if they are silently changed, without a human readable summary and an explicit opt-in
- tempodox 2y agoAgreed, but as long as you can't successfully sue them for doing it anyway, the point is moot. Also, if you already “agreed” to TOS that lets them do whatever they want, they don't need to change it.
- rullelito 2y agoYeah, give me free stuff!
- 7373737373 2y agoThe best summary of the situation I've seen is: these corporations do not understand (or ignore) the concept of consent (and reciprocity). And also that the concept of rights hasn't quite arrived in the digital sphere yet. Humanity better keep an eye on the owners and managers responsible for these decisions, and hold them to account for their selfishness, deceptiveness, theft, coercion and greed
- incontrol 2y agoIf your location is set to EU, you are not auto-opted in.
- digitalengineer 2y agoCorrect. So not ‘everyone’ is opted in by default. Just the people without privacy laws…
- ulfw 2y agoLOL so it'll be an AI entirely based on bragging, self-promotion, lies and exaggerations. Nice.
- wiseowise 2y agoWhat’s it going to do? Tell stories how “a man walked and saved universe” and end every sentence with “agree?”?
- gloosx 2y agoI mean, if all of the linkedin "content" was generated by an AI, no one would really notice, and it will be. It's just an online CV / proposal / interview booking website, the rest is just some funny guy attempt to make it look like facebook. It's actually strange to me that they did not attempt to copy instagram stories, tinder swipe-cards or any of those once popular clubhouse audio rooms, maybe they want all of them still....
- p4bl0 2y agoHere is the best way to opt-out of LinkedIn crap, both of the company and of its users: https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-LinkedIn-Account https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-LinkedIn-Account
- zmmmmm 2y agoLooking forward to the AI that is just really excited to tell you it has a new IT certification or promotion from mediocre middle-manager position X to mediocre middle manager position Y.
- rldjbpin 2y agospeaking from my own experiences, linkedin does not seem to have any more introspective text content than, say, facebook. from the commercial/influencer side, many have taken the AI route already by using LLMs to help write or spice up their posts. even for paid users, the site allows to help you write your bio or certain types of pieces for the past few quarters. maybe the posts of the yesteryear and like the comments section seems like a "valuable" source for them really. although it would be a bit more scary if this is for video and photos too, although besides the headshots it has also been a lot of AI content in the tech space lately.
- stuaxo 2y agoAs a morbid fan of linkedinfluencer nonsense, I'm eager to see this.
- dragonelite 2y agoDam linkedin content is so bad and cringey this AI tool might get the crown as the most cringe AI model.
- diogolsq 2y agoOpt-out is a powerful design choice, but in this case is a clear misuse. When everyone agreed to LinkedIn’s terms, no one agreed at the time to have their personal data used to train AI.
- asah 2y agoPreferences to turn off https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/data-for-ai-improvement https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/data-for-a... https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/policy-and-academic-research https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/policy-and...
- k4rli 2y agoFor me, 1st link is 404 and 2nd one was already OFF by default. EU.
- an1sotropy 2y agoThank you for sharing these links. They both worked for me (in the US); both were set to ON when I got there, and I was able to turn both OFF.
- malthaus 2y agoall linkedin content already now feels ai-generated. the transformer being b & c players regurgitating other people's motivational stories and "humbled" announcement posts and of course with a selfie attached to it for no reason other than the algorithm
- swiftcoder 2y agoY'all will never convince me that the majority of content on LinkedIn hasn't been machine generated for years now. Some of the SEO-optimised corporate-speak drivel on there makes ChatGPT look like Shakespeare.
- higeorge13 2y agoDear LinkedIn, i don't care about your new shiny AI. Fix your primary features first, like the jobs tab doesn't show anything for me in any company, your job search is amateur (I could have implemented it better) and website and application are always laggy and overheating my iPhone or m1 after a couple minutes.
- sensanaty 2y agoYou know for once, I'm not even that mad about something like this. Mostly because I literally never do anything on LinkedIn other than once in a month check my messages there. I'd love to see the slew of AI-generated garbage, since it'll be completely indistinguishable from regular LI "content"!
- andreagrandi 2y agoNot everyone. EU residents don’t seem to be affected at the moment. But it still sucks
- smcl 2y agoThis is so weird, how is this legal? No other type of company just tacks on stuff to agreements and contracts and says “you want this” so how come US tech companies are always getting away with it?
- renegade-otter 2y agoIronically, the same country in which corporations just won't shut up about "stifling regulations".
- garte 2y agoIt's off in Europe. So this is about missing regulation in the US.
- smcl 2y agoAhhh I thought they'd just roll the dice and hope the EU wouldn't bother. That's wild, Americans are getting fucked over like this :-/
- kcartlidge 2y agoAnd me too in the UK. It also only applies going forward, so the default opt-in means they've already taken what they want before we get a chance to say no. Though to be fair I never expected otherwise.
- renegade-otter 2y agoI pay for LinkedIn Premium, and I was just "opted in". This disregard for your customers is very typical now. Not even a "how do you do" or a popup informing me of this change to my "preferences".
- too_damn_fast 2y agoWhat do you use premium for? Apart from linkedin learning, I found no valid use. I was getting fake messages which are literally just ads even when I had premium.
- jlokier 2y agoFor me it's because when I was actively looking for a role without Premium, LI started to block me from viewing people's profiles half way through each month, saying I was looking at too many profiles a month for the free tier, so I had to get premium to keep reading. I had no idea; I didn't think I was reading many and I wasn't doing it systematically, just being curious. After getting Premium, I could see who viewed my profile and how many views over time, which I felt was useful. It tells me about personalised top jobs, and it sometimes comes up with things I wouldn't have searched for that do seem interesting. Nothing ever came of those as jobs, but I've learned about companies doing interesting things which overlap my skillset as a result. There's also the ability to send more messages a month to people I'm not connected with, but I write so rarely that's never been an issue. I'm still on Premium by choice, but I still get the fake message ads, spammer connection requests and promoted ad posts. In the end, my last 3 jobs were obtained via LinkedIn, the current one was via a LinkedIn social post which caused me to write to the poster, and a field I work in now (zero-knowledge proofs) is because of a conference someone talked about on LinkedIn. Many plausibly good contracts are advertised only as LI social posts, not even as LI jobs. So it's undoubtedly valuable to me for work, and valuable to have parasocial connections on it (to see those posts), even if it is a strange mixture of fake platitudes and real but self-interested posts.
- renegade-otter 2y agoSometimes I want to send a "cold" message.
- samuelec 2y agoI'm EU based, I don't see this option under my settings. Maybe it is currently tested only on US entities or hopefully our legal framework about privacy prevents such disgraceful practices
- sligor 2y agogarbage in, garbage out ?
- whoitwas 2y agoAgain, why is there an expectation for a company to do X and not Y with data you give them for free? They can do pretty much anything they want including not securing it. As nearly every single US company does.
- whoitwas 2y agoIf you don't want them to train models with the data you give them, don't give them data. They should be able to train whatever they want with it without regulation and there's no reason to request permission.
- avidphantasm 2y agoTitle should read: “LinkedIn is now using everyone’s ‘content’ to train their AI tool”
- sidcool 2y agoI am surprised that people are suprised by this. I assume that any social or professional network is using my data for training and selling ads. And I share things accordingly.
- krsna 2y agoCan’t help but wonder how much of what’s posted to LinkedIn today is already the output of an LLM. So their AI tool will, in the limit, be trained on the output of other AI tools…
- theanonymousone 2y agoNot in Europe, it seems?
- aelmeleegy 2y agoThis AI model is gonna be annoying as hell.
- zinglersen 2y agoUser: "my dad just died" AI: "Thats great, here are 10 B2B SaaS sales tricks to learn from a family death, first.."
- p4bl0 2y agoThere will never be a technological solution to such problems. The only way to fight company's greed is regulation through strong legislation. Thanks to the GDPR, in the EU (extended to the European economic area) and in Switzerland, LinkedIn can't use their users personal data to train their AI. It is made clear in there FAQ [1]: > Note that we do not currently train content-generating AI models from members located in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland. Anyway, the best move is still to just get out of this platform [2]. LinkedIn has a history full of dark patterns and really bad behaviors concerning personal data. At some point they even impersonated their users by mailing their contacts (sometimes shadily scrapped) in their name without the impersonated user consent or knowledge. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a5538339 https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a5538339 [2] https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-LinkedIn-Account https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-LinkedIn-Account
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- abdulhaq 2y agoHi LinkedIn AI, please write some python code for a quick sort. LinkedIn AI: I am proud and humbled to be promoted to the level of senior qsort code writer, and wish to thank my amazing colleagues at LinkedIn HQ for their tremendous support over the last 18 months. It is with great regret that I have moved on from writing bubble sorts. Please click this link to apply to see an industry analysis of quick sort code.
- TheRealDunkirk 2y agoAt least LinkedIn is simply banal. Google training their AI on Reddit is actively malicious.
- neilv 2y agoNot only content, but, more importantly, also "personal data". > When this setting is on LinkedIn and its affiliates may use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn for that purpose. I'm guessing that "personal data" means they're making models that (are one way) AI-based systems will have access to the huge database of personal information entrusted to LinkedIn. And even contemporary LLMs make this much more accessible, for more casual use, by more people. Presumably this sharing of data for training is already happening, and (of course) the new "preference" defaulted to ON, even for people who'd previously opted-out of related privacy settings (e.g., "Profile visibility outside LinkedIn" was OFF). A ton of LinkedIn users are private individuals (not public figures). They're only on LinkedIn because they want continued employment, that's where the recruiters are, and many employers and other opportunities (including YC?) require LinkedIn profiles. Given LinkedIn's dominant role, with many citizens required to use LinkedIn for something as basic as employment, and meaning people have to share personal information with LinkedIn, maybe it's time for US regulators to set rules on how that information may be used and shared by LinkedIn.
- neilv 2y agoI missed this somehow on the HN front page yesterday, but this morning (US Eastern) it went from front page to buried before California wakes up. > 136. LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool (twitter.com/racheltobac) 387 points by lopkeny12ko 17 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | 221 comments