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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by card_zero on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:15PM (#45066797)
And here it is, evolving before your eyes: we're killing off the maladaptive mutant which was "opt-in by default". That's the evolution that is happening here.
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by troad on Friday August 29, 2025 @07:41PM (#45070611)
That would not be evolution, that would be an attempt at creationism. There is no evolution police, and never will be.
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by danparsonson on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:17PM (#45070824)
Selection pressure is the evolution police.
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by card_zero on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:03PM (#45071301)
It would be fair to compare it to selective breeding, rather than natural selection. The flip side of rejecting usage is promoting neologisms. We can do both things deliberately, I see no rule saying that language is only allowed to evolve naturally. A reasonable criticism would be that trying to change it on purpose makes for a lot of unnecessary fuss, but we can be moderate about it.
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