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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out (www.malwarebytes.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 28 points 9 months ago (1 child)

If they are training on my emails, they are going to be dumb as fuck.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Honestly I don't get how AI isn't rolling backwards already. Image sites are burried in AI slop. Social media posts are burried in AI slop, and now e-mails, that were probably written by AIs. How is AI even remotely improving right now, when obviously 90% of any new training data it's getting, was generated by the last generation of AI.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Companies that build large LLMs have already said that this is becoming a problem. They're running out of high-quality human-written content to train their models.

    Google paid Reddit to get access to their data to train their models, which is probably why their AI can be a bit dumb at times (and of course, the users that actually contributed the content don't get any of that money)

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    that's true, but I think it's in the phrasing, they describe it as a shortage of human made content. the bigger issue to note is the lack of ability to identify human made content. IE you give it reddit and our e-mails, there's plenty of human made content on there... but nobody knows what percentage of it is actually bots or AIs.

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