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Author abandons forums, questioning AI's future learning data

The author has ceased posting on traditional forums due to issues like time zone delays, loss of context in threads, and a prevalence of downvote culture. This shift is particularly relevant as large language models have been trained on vast amounts of forum data, and the author questions the future learning material for subsequent AI models if new information is not documented. AI

IMPACT The decline in public documentation could impact the future training data available for AI models, potentially limiting their learning and development.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece discussing the author's personal decision to stop using forums and its implications for AI training data.

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Author abandons forums, questioning AI's future learning data

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The write-up is about why I stopped posting on forums: the delays across time zones, threads that lose their own context, scripted replies pasted without readin

    The write-up is about why I stopped posting on forums: the delays across time zones, threads that lose their own context, scripted replies pasted without reading the question, and the downvote culture. The awkward part is this: LLMs learned from decades of forum posts and documen…