An AI model trained on posts from Nazis. What can go wrong?

How useful would an AI model be if it were trained on the content from a social media platform full of nazis, russian trolls, and bots?

It's gonna be the dumbest AI in human history

"Just public data, not DMs or anything private," huh?

Obviously Elon Musk considers everything we post on Twitter as his personal wealth... It's true though, since all our personal data is stored on his servers, and he can scrape whatever he wants.

It's time to step into a decentralized peer-to-peer social media where we will no longer be exploited by Twitter, Facebook, or whatever platform, and there are no more central servers to gather your data without consent.

Joke's on them, I never made a single post.

Twitter was shit from the very beginning.

I'm still calling it twitter

It's more like a non-privacy policy and should be called that.

Go ahead, train on me not writing a single thing and just retweeting exclusively Pokémon drawings from Japanese artists.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As Ivanovs points out, X owner Elon Musk has ambitions to enter the AI market with another company, xAI.

This leads him to theorize that Musk likely intends to use X as a source of data for xAI — and perhaps Musk’s recent tweet encouraging journalists to write on X was even an attempt to generate more interesting and useful data to feed into the AI models.

In fact, Musk has previously stated that xAI would use “public tweets” to train its AI models, so this is not much of a leap.

Musk also filed suit against unknown entities for scraping Twitter data, which also may have been for the purpose of training artificial intelligence large language models.

Musk essentially confirmed the privacy policy change, responding to a post on X to clarify that the plan is to use “just public data, not DMs or anything private.”

X no longer responds to press requests with a poop emoji as it had following Musk’s takeover of the social network.

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"xAI". The success of this AI will be measured whether it changes its name or not.

Great idea. Trainning an AI model on twitter totaly didn't go terribly wrong the last time it was tried. /s

If the data is public, can't anyone use it to train anyway? (besides rate limits to get the actual data, of course)

It's going to end up similar as when an AI was trained on 4chan. Mega racist and homophobic but also hyper sensitive because its Twitter (not gonna call it the new name)

I see this as a challenge to the fediverse? Our platforms are open and amenable to being used for AI training. Mastodon is full of human made image descriptions, some of them quite detailed.

Does the fediverse want to do anything different? Closed / private / human only spaces?