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by derektank 550 days ago
I would be shocked if LinkedIn isn't already being scraped for training data given Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI. Even setting that aside, this is presumably data which you have already chosen to share publicly for anyone with a LinkedIn account to see. How many people really have concerns about sharing it with another third party?
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That's a pretty cold take. If the extension did not need info from linkdin that is not publically available it would not be an extension.

And second, I am not ok with my info outside of my control even if it's public. I might change my mind about it being public, or I might want to change part or all of it. Good luck doing that after it's been fed to an LLM, even IF the company adheres to the GDPR and has not been resold several times along with your data.

How great is it then that you aren’t using the extension?

Get off your high horse.

It’s a fun little extension that accelerates a process a million people are likely using chatgpt for weekly.