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Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models

60 pointsby pizzayesterday at 9:33 PM15 commentsview on HN

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xp84today at 2:29 AM

https://x.com/scottbuscemi/status/2013397238568099843?s=20

last item here seems to indicate that the OP tweet is a (bad faith?) overly broad reading. The "in accordance with our privacy policy" link part is showing right there in that original tweet, and doesn't seem to have been checked.

I know a lot of people think Musk is simply a mustachio-twirling comic book villain so there's not a lot of critical thinking ever applied to this sort of story, but even still, he'd have to be an order of magnitude dumber than buying Twitter, to think they could just train on all browsing data and that people would be chill about it.

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crimsonnoodle58yesterday at 10:58 PM

So, as most of the web is HTTPS now they have DNS requests (if users haven't used a third party DNS like 1.1.1.1), and IP addresses. Maybe the SNI domain name if they are doing packet inspection.

Not really sure how useful this would be on model training?

Maybe ranking which sites it should give as answers based on popularity?

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andsoitisyesterday at 9:48 PM

> cryps1s

Post by CISO @OpenAI. Must be a slow day.

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foobarkeytoday at 3:23 AM

Like what data, my DNS queries and TCP connects? Ok I guess

atarvaneitortoday at 2:35 AM

It was impossible to do this through the app (a website opened from the app XD) or the website.

When creating the ticket,a chat opens and a warning appeared: "By continuing, you agree that your data will be used to train AI models. See the Privacy Policy for how to opt out."

Does this mean it's impossible to get support if I don't want AI?

After disgustingly evading Grok's support AI, was it possible to open the ticket to disable data sharing for AI training and therefore cancel future support? XD

metalmanyesterday at 10:42 PM

I was on the fence with switching to starlink from cellular data, but I realy cant stand the idea of a wrestling match with another giant corporation, weaponising "may", might", "occasionaly", "certain terms and conditions", "reserve the right to" better the perv I know then some new more ambitios one.

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