Training data?
> I also don't understand your comparison to "defund the police" - were there any places that fully applied it and demonstrated that it "fails in practice"
It's a famous example where a minority overreacting in a presentable way set the entire movement back.
> Training data?
What purpose would user data serve in your training set? What's the application of the LLM after it's done training?
I'm sure we all understand why the user doesn't want his private data in the training set, but I also don't understand why BigAI would want to train on this data. Except for AI-enhanced advertising, of course. But maybe... nobody should do this anyway?
Why is it okay for companies to just vacuum up all user data without 90% of users knowing it’s happening ?
Or shall the “stealing” of knowledge and creative works without consent continue?
Outcry made Adobe and other such companies put (opt-out) user controls for gathering training data, but writers, especially writers on the internet, are usually ignored. I've seen even the angriest "AI is stealing my art if you use Dall-E you're a bad person" people use ChatGPT, because they don't seem to consider writing to be art or expression as much as they do their own works.
Textual data just doesn't seem to be valued, and as a result data scrapers often don't care about annoyances such as "ethics" or "consent" when it comes to gathering training data.
Not sure how i feel about the whole thing to be honest. (legal gray area)
No. The development is a given. Where it happens is not. That’s the point. If you want to use European data to train, you’d better not have a European nexus.
On a side note, I also don't understand your comparison to "defund the police" - were there any places that fully applied it and demonstrated that it "fails in practice".