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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. This 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 training datasets...? Especially as they bootstrap with synthetic dat

x gwern's Shortform — LessWrong gwern's Shortform by gwern 24th Apr 2021 AI Alignment Forum 1 min read 62 11 Ω 4 This is a special post for quick takes by gwern . Only they can create top-level comments. Comments here also appear on the Quick Takes page and All Posts page . Rendering 0 / 62 comments, sorted by top scoring (show more) Click to highlight new comments since: Today at 12:29 PM Moderation Log More from gwern View more Curated and popular this week 62 Comments 62 Comment Permalink gwern 2y * Ω 25 115 49 Should you write text online now in places that can be scraped? You are exposing

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