I had lunch with an entrepreneur with a "big idea" to convince major LLM platforms to feature ads in their answers, using businesses that they specify.
> With this new decision, Anthropic makes this "free-riding" less attractive
Certainly not for any users like you and me, it takes two seconds and three clicks to review the new terms and decline chat training. This is more like Anthropic getting easy training from people who are unaware or don't care.
Seems the same thing. They're giving plausible deniability, but knowing they'll still scoop up a worthwhile amount of data/profit from some % of users.
Same here, I thought it was going to be an analogy for a political story.
Now that I know it is literal leeches and that the options are scraping them off or waiting for them to finish, avoiding areas with leeches feels like the move.
It seems like every combination of "nano banana" is registered as a domain with their own unique UI for image generation... are these all middle actors playing credit arbitrage using a popular model name?
I'd assume they are just fake, take your money and use a different model under the hood. Because they already existed before the public release. I doubt that their backend rolled the dice on LMArena until nano-banana popped up. And that was the only way to use it until today.
Agreed, I didn't mean to imply that they were even attempting to run the actual nano banana, even through LMarena.
There is a whole spectrum of potential sketchiness to explore with these, since I see a few "sign in with Google" buttons that remind me of phishing landing pages.
(At least to me) that language doesn’t feel particularly reassuring… especially given the duplicitous nature of data collection - i.e. “we don’t sell your data” translates to “we create a sophisticated advertising profile about you, and monetize that”
Those are totally different things. Google and Facebook do /not/ sell your data. The reason they're valuable is they don't sell your data, that would mean everyone else has it!
They rent out your attention span by providing you a service and then showing you ads.
You reminded me of an awesome Google engineer I met at BSidesSF last year who tirelessly answered my questions, and when I clicked on the video, it was you! That was a really inspiring moment for me, thank you.
BSidesSF is a fantastic event, glad you're able to attend. There's some great people organize it and if you want to help out they're always looking for volunteers. Happy to make an intro if you like.
It was a very short lunch.
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