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The dirty secret: LLMs run on other people's content

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that's the dirty secret of all of this is that it none of these LLM is get trained without content. And where does the content come from?

Episode 169: Wifi & Web Apps (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:24:32 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

As LLM aggregators start rewording and republishing creators' content for nothing in return, Dave points out the dirty secret: none of these models can be trained without content, and that content comes from creators.