cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51671840

📌 Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS¹ of user pins² to train it’s AI!

Data from 2009-Now, however the Social Media corp claims “users have granted Pinterest a license”.

What license? Pretty sure AI training fine print wasn’t a thing in 2009!

It even includes “limited personal information”.

Grounds for a lawsuit? 🤓

¹ Never heard of this unit ever before, but even if we assume 1 ROW = 4-6 Pins that is 2-3 BILLION user Pins!

² Post would sound way worse wouldn’t it?

🔗 Source: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    6 days ago

    The only thing worth a damn is genuinely human-created content, but only because you can sell it to train AI which produces only negative value.

    We are in dire need of a market correction.

    • nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Oh I agree, LLMs poisoning themselves on their own slop may help. However, the bubble should not pop yet - it needs to hurt a lot more, or people will never learn.

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 days ago

        People who control content-sites like Pinterest don’t need to wait for the bubble to pop. They should see their eyeball count dropping precipitously the more AI content they have, and the fewer eyeballs means the less value the site has. But capitalism has trouble seeing past the next quarter.