Post by @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

2026-09-30 23:33 UTC

@knowprose@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social what are they? what are the ethical standards? I've seen a few LLMs that were better than most, but none that were quite what I'd consider "ethical." I'd like to see one based on true consent, i.e. direct opt-in data collection only from people who know what they're contributing to.

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@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social 2026-09-30 23:39

@knowprose@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social I don't think it's truly ethical to use someone's data for LLM training just because "you technically agreed to this in the terms of service in 2014" or "you contributed to a creative commons project in 2009" or "you were an employee in 2018 and therefore we can do whatever we want with your words even though you never agreed to contribute to our AI and that wasn't in your contract." Almost no one could have understood what they were supposedly consenting to back then.

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@knowprose@mastodon.social 2026-09-30 23:47

@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social just do a search for a local model trained on public domain data.

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@farseen@fedi.nptr.xyz 2026-10-01 07:23

@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social @knowprose@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social cactus needle 14MB tool calling model is made from synthetic data of natural language to json tool calling. Not sure if it counts as an LLM. It's very niche too

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