Re:LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hack...
by voidUpdate on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:12AM
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It's a bit of both really. I don't particularly want everything I put on the internet to be slurped and put into The Algorithm(tm), and I was initially positive about LLMs and Image Generation in general but more recently I've just become annoyed at them, especially when I have a lot of friends in the art community
Re:LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hack...
by renewedrebecca on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:10AM
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The concern here is that people aren’t happy that LLM parasites are wasting their bandwidth and therefore their money on a scheme to get rich off of other people’s work.
Re:LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hack...
by qsort on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:25AM
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I'm not saying that there aren't problems giving big tech yet another blank check, but aren't we going a bit overboard here? I read the code (it's 100 lines) and it does one (1) GET request. You'd be generating pretty much the same traffic if you went to the webpage yourself.
What's your concern here - is it not wanting LLMs to train future models on your content, or a more general dislike of the technology as a whole?
The "not train on my content" thing is unfortunately complicated. OpenAI and Anthropic don't train on content sent to their APIs but some other providers do under certain circumstances - Gemini in particular use data sent to their free tier "to improve our products" but not data sent to their paid tiers.
This has the weird result that it's rude to copy and paste other people's content into some LLMs but not others!
I've not seen anyone explicitly say "please don't share my content with LLMs that train on their input" because almost nobody will have the LLM literacy to follow that instruction!