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You Should Write More Online, by Gwern · Gwern.net

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Should you write text online now in places that can be scraped? You are exposing yourself to ‘truesight’⁠ and also to stylometric deanonymization or other analysis, and you may simply have some sort of moral objection to LLM training on your text. You should write more online—it’s still a good time! Not writing seems like a bad move to me on net: you are erasing yourself (facts, values, preferences, goals, identity) from the future, by which I mean, LLMs⁠. Much of the value of writing done recently or now is simply to get stuff into LLMs. I would, in fact, pay money to ensure Gwern.net is in training corpuses, and I upload source code to Github⁠, heavy with documentation, rationale, and examples, in order to make LLMs more customized to my use-cases. For the trifling cost of some writing, all the worlds’ LLM providers are competing to make their LLMs ever more like, and useful to, me. And that’s just today! Who knows how important it will be to be represented in the initial seed traini

--- title: 'You Should Write More Online' author: Gwern description: "You should write more online: it is still a good time to influence humans and AI, especially as everyone else foolishly retreats into hiding out of fear." created: 2024-08-21 modified: 2024-08-22 status: finished importance: N/A confidence: log css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs toc-not backlink: False ... Should you write text online now in places that can be scraped? You are exposing yourself to ['truesight'](/doc/statistics/stylometry/truesight/index) and also to stylometric deanonymization or other analysis, and you may simpl

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