They explicitly state that they will use your data to train. Here's the important line from ChatGPT's Terms of Use:

    Our use of content. We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, and
    improve our Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and
    policies, and keep our Services safe.

If you type something into the internet now, or anything internet-connected that goes to a cloud service, it's safe to assume it'll end up in a training set, or otherwise mined for every last scrap of value, unless explicitly stated otherwise (and even then, it still might).

Adjust your behavior accordingly, if that's even an option for you anymore.

For most, it's not an option. Only 5% of adults don't own a smartphone, and there's very little you can do on one which doesn't feed the machine. RMS warned us this day would come, and now it's here. We've worked hard for this world, hopefully at least our masters will enjoy it.

Side note: It's partially because of this that if I type something into the internet now, I feel no obligation to not type the craziest and most schizoidal thing that comes to mind (this comment here is a rare exception). Might as well, since most of your audience is bots.

It should be pretty obvious any frontier AI company worth its salt will steal any and all data it can, by whatever means necessary. They've all been doing it so far. It's a tragedy of the commons.

I wouldn't even limit it to "AI research". They are looking to expand into other areas (see: OpenAI's superapp ambitions), and they will take your other business ideas, research, and code too. If they get caught they will blame it on the AI and lawyer up with more dollars than you.

I think you might be underselling the scope of the problem, and I don't think it's going to be fixed by some person deciding not to call the LLM today.

Yeah, I don't have much more to say than that's very reasonable and I agree.

More generally, don't trust BigCo AI agents with _any_ IP. They have no incentive not to use your IP as training data.

duh, stating the obvious. unfortunately, most people are too focused on short term gains at the expense of long time costs.

they've already demonstrated they want to protect their AI from people using it for competition, so even if they're not doing it today, if they (AI) think you're a threat, they'll definitely do something, if not steal.

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