Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.
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Honestly the answer is to stop using those services. It comes will a cost but if you can manage it you won’t have to worry about where your data goes.
That’s about what I do. I get that most people don’t have the time and expertise to do it, but I self-host Nextcloud and Matrix chat. Most of my private data isn’t on other people’s platforms anyways. And I’d pay the small sum for a decent e-mail provider. And apart from that I don’t really mind. Whatever I post on social media is there for the public. I don’t mind if someone uses it to train AI. The bugreports and code I post on Github is licensed to be used freely. I don’t care how it’s used, I think using it as training material is kinda alright, since AI (or humans) don’t reproduce more than a few lines. And I’ve also learned coding by reading copyrighted books. But that’s just my opinion. Everyone shoud have the right to decide on their own for their own content.
Cutting down on these services is a good idea anyways. Even if they don’t use it for training, they’ll use it to manipulate people into buying stuff (advertising) or re-sell parts of the data.
TIL about Have I Been Trained
