How to square the circle of wanting to share ideas but not train AI?

Question

I find myself wanting to write blog posts (or even just HN comments) sharing thoughts and ideas. I&rsquo;m aware the vast majority of blogs are never really read, but they will help train AI to recreate content similar to what I produce and devalue any future thoughts I have. This greatly puts me off and leaves me to this dilemma of how to square this circle. Perhaps it&rsquo;s just worth the trade off, or perhaps as blogs are now rarely read there is no benefit to sharing. Have you had this concern and if so, how did you resolve it?

haltist · Accepted Answer

All digital content is currently managed by AI (search engines, social media, recommendation algorithms, etc). Even analog books will be eventually digitized and fed into AI. So there is no circle to square here, your perspective is inconsistent and you should figure out why. Presumably you have no problem with using the internet and the algorithms/platforms that are based on it so you are already participating in the system and writing posts or comments is just another form of participation in a system that will eventually be subsumed by AI/AGI.The march of increasing computational capabilities has only one inevitable endpoint, the "panoptic computronium cathedral"&trade;.

adastra22 · Answer

Give up.You wanted to share ideas. Presumably so that others could learn from you and share remixed ideas of their own. But if a machine is involved in doing the exact same thing you object?Grow up. You don&rsquo;t get to control how your freely given ideas are used.