> anthropic, google, openai etc, decided that their consumer ai plans would not be private. partly to collect training data, the other half to employ moderators to review user activity for safety.
That's two halves of "why", sure.
Another interesting half would be that those companies have US military officers on their boards, and LLMs are the ultimate voluntary data collection platform, even better trojan horses than smartphones.
Yet another "half" could be how much enterprise value might be found by datamining for a minute or two... may I suggest reading a couple of Martha Wells books.
That's two halves of "why", sure.
Another interesting half would be that those companies have US military officers on their boards, and LLMs are the ultimate voluntary data collection platform, even better trojan horses than smartphones.
Yet another "half" could be how much enterprise value might be found by datamining for a minute or two... may I suggest reading a couple of Martha Wells books.