[JohnFen]

> I think this is starting, but I'm not sure it has been internalized.

Good point. But I see people doing a whole lot more self-censoring these days without even realizing they're doing it, too.

> with the advent of LLMs I've thought of not just deleting accounts (despite being semi-anonymous) but purging them, so that my data cannot be used for future training

I have removed my websites from the public web for exactly this reason, and I've heard from several others who have done the same. So, to some degree anyway, this is already happening at least at that level.

This sort of thing (self-censoring) worries me greatly, and I don't think there's anything I can do about it. The sense of powerlessness is very high sometimes.

[ianopolous]

I'm interested in the "removing your websites from the public web". Are you taking them down, putting them behind auth, or something else?

[godelski]

Ah yeah, in that context I'm agreement. Self-censoring is tricky because it can happen without people realizing it or viewing it as self-censorship. That's a good point.