I often think suspect that the goal isn't exclusively training data so much as it's the freedom to do things that they haven't thought of in the future.
Imagine you come up with non-vague consumer terms for your product that perfectly match your current needs as a business. Everyone agrees to them and is happy.
And then OpenAI discover some new training technique which shows incredible results but relies on a tiny slither of unimportant data that you've just cut yourself off from!
So I get why companies want terms that sound friendly but keep their options open for future unanticipated needs. It's sensible from a business perspective, but it sucks as someone who is frequently asked questions about how safe it is to sign up as a customer of these companies, because I can't provide credible answers.
"OP here" is the funniest tell that shows up when using an LLM to write a post for HN or Reddit.
It's funny because it makes zero sense in the body of an initial post!
In comments replying to people downthread - maybe. But opening a top-level post with "Original Poster here" is just silly and shows a lack of respect for community etiquette.
Why actually try to understand a problem space? Far easier to prompt a turd into existence, polish it up with a cliché marketing page, and collect public validation from your fellow “hackers”
Since OpenAI patched the LLM spiritual awakening attractor state, physics and computer science is what sycophantic AI is pushing people towards now. My theory is that those things tend to be especially optimised for deceit because they involve modelling and many people can become confused between the difference between a model as the expression of a concept and a model as in the colloquial idea of "the way the universe works".
it's all ai allucination, in a subreddit i once found a tailor asking for how to contact some professors because they found a breakthrough discovery on how knowledge is arranged inside neural networks (whatever that means)
This: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/signal-creator-moxi...
Great timing! :^)
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