“ For users who access Amazon Q Developer with the Pro Tier, your content is not used for service improvement, or to train any underlying foundation models (FMs). Unless explicitly opted out, content from Amazon Q Developer Free Tier might also be used to enhance and improve the quality of FMs. Your content will not be used if you use the opt-out mechanism described in the documentation. For more information, see Sharing your data with AWS.”
Yes but restating the obvious sometimes helps to underscore who provides free work for whom. In this day and age it is often the 'user' who does the free labor. Especially, when there was normalized narrative (even before LLMs - with the crowd source) that user is the one being served.
I totally agree with you.
But the OP comment was not that, it was hinting at the fact it would always be used, as they did not add 'in the free tier only' to it.
So while restating the obvious in these cases is very good, it's also good to point out when.
What makes you say that? Their page literally say that’s not the case.
“ “For users who access Amazon Q Developer with the Pro Tier, your content is not used for service improvement, or to train any underlying foundation models (FMs). Unless explicitly opted out, content from Amazon Q Developer Free Tier might also be used to enhance and improve the quality of FMs. Your content will not be used if you use the opt-out mechanism described in the documentation. For more information, see Sharing your data with AWS.”
Because time and time again companies have said they will or won't do something and years later we see that they were not being truthful with their customers. This dig is not solely directed at Amazon, but pretty much every company where they just say "trust me" and you have no way to verify that trust.
AWS makes almost all of their money with enterprise customers, and violating these types of claims would absolutely not fly there. It would be a huge risk with very little benefits.
Most big players in the LLM field are getting their training data by at-least shady, if not illegal measures.
And if they don't care about laws on one side, why should anyone believe that they care on the other?
Amazon already uses their customers privat data to train models [1].
[1] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/06/hey-alexa...