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AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?

By MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow, edit a Wikipedia entry or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence. Not everyone is OK with that — especially as the same online forums where they’ve spent years contributing are increasingly flooded with AI-generated commentary mimicking what real humans might say. Some longtime users have tried to delete their past contributions or rewrite them into gibberish, but the protests haven’t had much effect.

 

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