Feeding the zoo animals (Site Stuff)

[BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp]

Sorry about the weird thread title; it's deliberate.

I thought everyone on FWR should be aware of this thread on Site Stuff (not everyone looks at Site Stuff).

It concerns what you put in your draft posts before you hit "Post."

More specifically, for a good summary, see

LemonDog45 at 22.11 yesterday

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5585556-odd-ai-generated-thread-title-options-in-site-stuff?page=9

And JustineMumsnet response at 16.29 today

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5585556-odd-ai-generated-thread-title-options-in-site-stuff?page=10

Make of that what you will. Justine says Mumsnet opted out of allowing OpenAI to use our draft posts. Would you believe OpenAI if they said, "ok, thanks for the info, we won't use the draft posts"?

This thread may get deleted, but, for now, I would avoid typing/C&Ping anything identifying or personal into your draft posts, even if you intend to delete it before posting, because it looks as though OpenAI may be scraping your draft posts as it generates titles and even possible responses. Before you actually post.

Might explain some of the weird, relentless posts we've had on FWR lately. Or maybe there really are just quite a few bored people around at the moment.

Sure. Let me do it now.

The forms of ‘AI’ - or rather, machine learning - which are genuinely useful for medical and scientific research and diagnostics are not LLMs trained on all the stuff on the internet. They’re trained using appropriate methods on relevant, usually properly curated, data.

If you don’t want garbage out, you don’t put garbage in!