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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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I am perfectly fine with providing training data for AI, and have actually spent hours contributing to various projects. However, it is super scummy for a company to collect and use sensitive user data (literally a keylogger) not only without any form of communication or consent, but where the only way to opt out is to pay.
Stuff like this should always be opt-in. It looks better on the company and builds trust.
Ideally, offer payment for users who opt-in to have their writing scraped and used to train AI.
Seems like this could easily be a win-win situation if they gave it a few seconds of thought.
Why do you assume everyone wants this garbage? We were fine without it.
That's basically what people said about:
I'd also argue that the customers of grammarly want this because they are paying for it. At least In the extension or app
Uhh umm... You are the product! Aaand... Shill for greedy corporations!
I remember when Google said quite openly that they'd give us email addresses with more storage than we'd ever dreamed for life and in return, they'd scan the first few sentences of all messages and use them to target ads at us and we were all like, "Sounds fair."