> you can choose to pause AI by adjusting privacy settings, disabling AI features in apps, or requesting data removal from companies. This is mostly futile reg

> you can choose to pause AI by adjusting privacy settings, disabling AI features in apps, or requesting data removal from companies. This is mostly futile regardless if it makes you feel better. LLMs have been trained on everything from your decades old forum posts, newsgroups, old social media posts, silly newgrounds comments or helpful stackoverflow input, reddit shower thoughts, 9gag memes, etc. Opting out now might prevent a negligible subset of your activity to be used in future training, but there will always be other services, other startups or flat out just companies who don't care about your consent. The time to worry about your privacy online was probably 30 years ago, when the internet started picking up pace. More so around the 2010s when social media was booming. All along, everyone knew you are handing your data, text and pictures to shady actors. Nobody cared. Now these same actors give you a silly toggle and promise they won't use your data for AI training after virtually all leading AI models used this data to get to where we are. It's a clown show.