[jelled]

I like this example and I'd agree that tracking people at scale can be immoral depending on the circumstances. But to me it feels that way because something is being taken from you. You've lost your agency to be anonymous or to leave your past behind.

But I don't see how an LLM training on your works deprives you of something you had before.

[chii]

> deprives you of something you had before.

it does in some sense - your exclusive knowledge of the subject matter is now transferrable via LLM or some sort of ai model.

For a human to achieve the same, they would've needed to undertake similar amounts of training, effort and dedication as you had. The number of people who would do such is currently small.

So realistically, your value as someone who has this unique expert subject knowledge is diminished.

However, these individual losses are offset by the greater good that the LLM/ai models would generate. It is exactly equivalent to the luddite's arguments about why they would not want the textile machines to replace them.

[melagonster]

artists put their artwork online, let people use these in an acceptable range. usually, learning (not copy) from it is acceptable. but there are more controversy around generating million artwork have same personal style, let artists lose job and let their families starve.