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X changed its terms of service to let its AI train on everyone's posts

32 points by jayantbhawal 1 day ago | 17 comments

gnabgib 1 day ago

Small discussion (10 points, 5 days ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41867208

lazycog512 23 hours ago

I assume if it's in the open that it's going to be scraped and fed into the system, ToS or not.

DrillShopper 22 hours ago

Same though I do wish there was a way to enforce copyright against the giant megacorps (specifically on training AI) that see everything on the Internet as just part of their profit making empire.

Though if I copied one of their things they'd bury me in court until I was either broke or dead.

reginald78 19 hours ago

I don't even think it needs to be in the open. I think the endgame for things like Windows Recall is to train on data on your local machine, and I'm sure they train on things in the cloud whether its openly available or not.

neodymiumphish 16 hours ago

Apple Intelligence seems well positioned to provide some of the best functionality for radical personalization. The potential for new devices to come with additional unified memory intended to run its LLM and vector databasing / additional training, it could use your specific writing style, time certain notifications based on when you’re least/most productive, etc. My guess is that they’re going to make this advanced functionality subscription based, since the vast majority of cases will require Private Cloud instances (unless _maybe_ you’re using a device with a significantly high amount of memory and strong enough M-series processor).

unsignedint 19 hours ago

Many people seem to have skewed expectations, but posting on X is no different from publishing a blog post. Unless they're taking similar actions for private posts, this isn’t too surprising. In fact, X is arguably more transparent about it. (Other platforms might not explicitly mention AI, but often include terms in their ToS that allow similar practices.)

It wouldn’t be surprising if Facebook is doing the same, provided it only applies to public posts. Ultimately, if you don’t want your content scraped from the internet, the best defense is not to post it at all.

rsynnott 20 hours ago

This seems like a particularly bad move, because:

- The content is, er, not what you'd call high-quality.

- Artists generally _hate_ genAI. Like, really, really, viscerally hate it. They're gonna lose whole communities over this.