[anileated]

If the purpose of this is not to data mine and train AIs to sell, prove it with ToS. If it is, be upfront perhaps. Of all places here people kind of get how it works.

Such a cute landing page and all this dance just to entice humans to provide more input to AI models to sell. It’s actually kind of disgusting when you think what the ultimate plan almost definitely is.

[luisamodio]

So, no our plan is not to train AI models to then substitute the catchers. In fact we have a completely different philosophical approach as all the emerging AI trends do. We believe AI is great technology and tool but our values and purpose are to improve the way humans interact online. So, we will use AI to make better matching and be able to provide appropriate people to the appropriate question, thus providing a better experience. But we want people to thrive on both ends of this service. Thats why we built it that way. Plus AI is great at many things but we also believe regardless of how powerful a model is, there are things it will never be able to replace, like an empathetic human response to a person in need. The human touch...

[anileated]

Interesting plan if you stick to it, appreciate the answer.

[version_five]

Why is it automatically a bad thing if they use the data to train llms? Who is losing under this situation?

[trog]

> Why is it automatically a bad thing if they use the data to train llms? Who is losing under this situation?

At a glance of the post and only a few seconds thought, I would guess the 'catchers' - the people who are being paid to answer the questions.

If they are being brought to the platform with the promise of regular work, building up a profile of expertise & reliability so they can generate more revenue on the platform, but under the hood their responses are just training LLMs so their work can be automated and they're eventually replaced by a catcher-bot trained on their responses... then I would argue they are losing in this situation, as they've invested time building up their profile only to risk having it stripped away.

It's a bit like building a cool new physical product and then going to a lot of effort to build a shopfront and presence on Amazon, only to have an AmazonBasics version of your product appear after a couple of months.

edit: not to say that this is what is happening with this site or that their intent is malicious! Just gaming out a potential case where there are some losers on the user side here.

[JohnFen]

It's not that it's automatically a bad thing. It's that it's a thing many people will object to, so if that's what's being done, it should be disclosed.