highly doubt it, they're trained on publicly available data mostly
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If by “publicly” you mean “any data source that it managed to connect to, public or private”, then yes….
Not entirely though.
Like we know grok was trained on the fbi's cp stash, right?
Do you have any source on that?
Dont recall where i heard it.
All the ai companies have trained on the FBI cp database but they use a coefficient of -1 thus steering it away from such content. Reinforcing against such material. Openai used to pay people for cp Idk if they still do this tho.
So why all the cp from them?
Those files are kinda a nightmare to navigate in their bare state. And the datasets are huge. I doubt anyone training AI would allow them to go through knowingly, less it was specifically a police invesigation and case law focused AI that was designed to process and categorize that kind of data.
Most AI are designed for functional discussion and factual data processing. It's not a great idea to just feed in random trash.
I had to use cloudflare to stop AI crawlers from using like 60% of my 16 core server that runs this instance. They were spending that much time pulling fediverse content, multiple bots without and wait time between requests. You really think they'd reject epstein files but seek out our combined output?
They scrape data indiscriminately; I'm sure any Epstein files publicly accessible on the internet have been added to their databases. Perhaps they'd be filtered out before being used to train models but I'm skeptical they take that level of care with the data.
not a good idea
Which would stop them.
Well know if they start using redactions as much as em dashes
And also everyone's vague notes about, like, the Sword of Truth mass isekai hatefic they wanted to write back in 2024 but then gave up on because they mentioned the Battle of Cable Street and then had to stare at a wall for a bit and walk away in shame
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