alt Hacker NewsI think the heart of this issue is: people assume they have anonymity in numbers, but we have the tools to make it easy to scoop your data if it's interesting to the company.
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utopiah • yesterday at 2:11 PM
This is such a naive position though.
The most successful companies of the last decade have precisely been ... selling usage data.
Makes me wonder if, in 2026, the same people drive a car without realizing that yes it does actually pollute the very air you and your kids are breathing.
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sigbottle • yesterday at 3:32 PM
In general, a lot of moral invariants that natural selection has rendered as "intuitive" to us are no longer intuitive or possible. These natural brakes are not braking.
I always thought that due to the big batch size in SGD/Adam/Muon the model will not memorize a single conversation when trained on, but idk how true that is. The idea of AI companies pin-pointing users that do novel scientific research and then tracking their activity is the direction this points to. I hope that's not the case; that would be bad.