I feel like every day I come across 15-20 "AI-powered tool"s that “analyze” something, and none of them clearly state how they use data. This one seems harmless enough, put a profile in, it will scrape everything about them, all their personal information, their location, every post they ever made… Nothing can possibly go wrong aggregating all that personal info, right? No idea where this data is sent, where it’s stored, who it’s sold to. Kinda alarming

  • breakingcups@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    LLM is at its core just a text processing tool. For it to be remotely useful when you’re not generating text from nothing, you need data to process. Preferably larger amounts so you appear more useful. Scraping websites like this is a good way to get source data useful for an individual who you’re trying to convince to give you money.