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Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Using People's Data To Train Artificial Intelligence Models
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Professional networking platform LinkedIn has confirmed that it automatically uses personal user data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without first informing its members.
The LinkedIn app displayed on a phone in London on Jan. 11, 2021. Edward Smith/Getty Images
The California-headquartered company said in a Sept. 18 blog post that it has updated the privacy policy element of its terms of service to include language clarifying how it uses the information shared with it “to develop the products and services of LinkedIn and its affiliates, including by training AI models used for content generation (‘generative AI’) and through security and safety measures.”
The platform said that there is an opt-out setting for members when it comes to using their data for generative AI training.
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, which has invested heavily in OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT. According to the FAQ section of the platform’s website, the AI models used to power generative AI features may be trained by LinkedIn or another provider, such as Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service.
The networking site said it uses generative AI for features such as its writing assistant and for suggesting posts or messages.
Personal data such as user posts, usage information, inputs and resulting outputs, language preferences, and any feedback they may provide is among the data processed and used to train AI, LinkedIn said.
When LinkedIn trains generative AI models, it seeks to “minimize personal data in the data sets” used to train them, including by using privacy-enhancing technologies that redact or remove personal data from the training dataset, the company said.
LinkedIn said the updates to its terms of service will go into effect on Nov. 20.
LinkedIn added that it does not currently train content-generating AI models on data from members located in the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
“If you live in these regions, we and our affiliates will not use your personal data or content on LinkedIn to train or fine-tune generative AI models for content creation without further notice,” the company said.
Opting Out
LinkedIn users in other locations who wish to opt out of allowing the platform to use their data for AI training can visit the “data for generative AI improvement” member setting and set it to “off.”
According to LinkedIn, opting out means that the platform and its affiliates “won’t use your personal data or content on LinkedIn to train models going forward, but does not affect training that has already taken place.”
Meanwhile, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced earlier this month that it will resume training AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months.
That announcement was made after the company paused training to address “regulatory feedback.”
Meta said it will use public information including posts, photos, captions, and comments from accounts of users over the age of 18 to train and improve its generative AI models. It said the content will not include private messages.
A smartphone displays Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiling the Meta logo, in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2021. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images
Meta said that users in the UK will soon receive in-app notifications regarding AI training, along with information on how they can access a form to object to their data being used to train generative AI models.
Privacy rights groups have criticized social media platforms for processing users’ data without their consent and have urged the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s data protection watchdog, to take action.
In a statement, Mariano delli Santi, the legal and policy officer at the UK-based Open Rights Group, said LinkedIn is the latest social media company found to be processing user data without first asking for consent.
“The opt-out model proves once again to be wholly inadequate to protect our rights: the public cannot be expected to monitor and chase every single online company that decides to use our data to train AI,” he said.
The Epoch Times contacted a LinkedIn spokesperson for further comment but didn’t receive a reply by publication time.
They will succeed PPT wins this round better luck next time all out
Trying hard to keep markets up..
Nice info going to use this link
Ok ok we see you ..but going to hold $3s this time or another fake out. Support been at $2.60s past few weeks. Looking better
Rate cut reminds me of 2007 at first a market rise then the selling started to really pick up as investors are aware there is no brightness in future. It’s all a mirage.
AAPD $16.71 -$16.82 good entries
NVDS almost $38 cash out rest NVDA $115s here better hope this holds
SOXS trade doing the best up 8%. They keeping the lid on VIX still. Yellen at work lol
Hopefully you added some yesterday.. The Great Cashout—Jeff Bezos, Leon Black, Jamie Dimon, and the Waltons, High-profile CEOs, founders, and heirs are selling stock by the bucketload in the companies that made them billionaires.
The Great Cashout—Jeff Bezos, Leon Black, Jamie Dimon, the Waltons ...
CEOs, founders, and heirs are selling stock by the bucketload in the companies that made them billionaires. Reason to panic??
$21s looking good now at $23 no way they could sustain market pump too long
Make no mistake. 50bps cut, is a panic cut. So, why did the Fed panic?
Most likely, there were four reasons:
The Fed is racking up massive losses.
Political pressure to not crash the markets before the Presidential elections on November 5 (last FOMC meeting before).
The Federal Reserve is genuinely worried about the economy, but especially about debt levels.
Banking sector fragility.
Like I noted two weeks ago, the Fed is accumulating massive losses from its holdings of Treasuries and corporate bonds. This is because it has bought them when they were much more expensive (rates were lower). When rates rose, the value of Treasuries collapsed, generating heavy losses for the Fed.
Monthly summation of remittances of the Federal Reserve due to the Treasury. Source: Miguel Castro and Samuel Jordan-Wood.
So, the one reason the Fed wants to lower rates (to increase the value of Treasuries) is because it wants to save its own *ss, by increasing the value of the Treasuries it holds. A central bank that holds large quantities of government bonds is never even semi-independent, because their value dictates the credibility of the Bank. The Fed tried to go around this problem by labelling the losses as deferred assets. That is, it marked losses as “assets” in its balance sheet. It is obvious that such blatant accounting fraud can fly only for so long. So, the Fed needed to cut to ease the financial burden, on itself.
Markets were expecting a 50bps cut, and so were some of the politicians. However, in actuality, a 50bps cut may turn up badly for the markets, because it signals that the Fed sees some serious weakness in the economy.
I concluded my last weeks piece by noting:
Banks seem somewhat optimistic and they have eased lending standards. There is not much room for leveraging among corporations and especially among households, though, which shows in the stagnation of borrowing. This indicates that the optimism among banks is likely to be a “false positive”. Their optimism can, for example, be based on the assumption that the Fed easing would create favorable conditions for an economic recovery. Due to the very high level of indebtedness of households and corporations, I consider this to be unlikely. This implies that we could see, possibly a drastic, turn into re-tightening of lending standards and softening of credit demand in the coming quarters.
I think this is the risk the Fed is seeing. There is simply too much private and federal debt and if rates stay high, defaults will start to roll in, with also the likelihood of U.S. sovereign debt rising. This would hurt the economy badly.
U.S. banks continue to struggle under a gargantuan amount of unrealized losses. They arise mostly from the same source as with the Fed, i.e. from Treasuries losing value, en masse. We also noted in the August World Economic Outlook of GnS Economics that the outflow of core deposits seem to have re-started. Deposit outflow is a major risk for the banking sector, because it implies waning trust and, as banking is a business of trust, waning trust implies growing fragility in the banking sector. The Fed cannot stop the outflow of deposits, but it can try to diminish the unrealized losses by cutting interest rates, and hoping that Treasury yields follow. At the time of writing, this was not going well with, e.g. the yield of U.S. 10-year Treasury note shooting up. This is an (early) indication that the bond market now expects inflation to pick up.
Core deposits in the U.S. banking system. Source: GnS Economics, FDIC
Alas, the Fed eased heavily, because of the losses it and U.S. banks are accumulating and because it sees the risk of the economy breaking. These are not encouraging signs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-pivots-panics
Add 4.38s thank you
NVDS $37.29 flip out most let some ride for $115s
Back to $113s hopefully holds down there for now
Plenty of 4.41 added for the flip
NVDS $36s look ok. Keep in mind first few minutes funds buy stocks at highest price for 401k holders then we should see a pullback
NBY 1.02 + 102% still going energizer bunny
BLUE BELL, Pa., Sept. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Acumen Health Holdings, LLC, a professionally recommended, consumer-preferred dietary supplements company focused on eye health and companion animals, announced today that its subsidiary, PRN Physician Recommended Nutriceuticals, LLC, has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire the assets of the Avenova® brand (the "Brand") and business from NovaBay® Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NBY) ("NovaBay"). The Brand offers several products for ocular health including cleansing sprays, absorbent wipes, and heated eye masks. The Brand's leading product, the Avenova® Lid & Lash Cleansing Spray, is a hypochlorous acid spray utilized to promote eye hygiene. Avenova® products are sold through the direct-to-consumer, professional, and retail pharmacy channels. The transaction is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Acumen Health Holdings
The acquisition of the Brand will bolster PRN's existing portfolio and strengthen PRN's commitment to deliver high-quality products that have a meaningful impact on patients' eye health. PRN will leverage their existing sales force and relationships with optometrists and ophthalmologists to expand access and awareness of Avenova® products.
"The Brand pioneered the use of hypochlorous acid in eyecare and has a long history of success in the professional channel," said Scott Woodruff, CEO of Acumen Health Holdings. "This exciting acquisition broadens PRN's existing eye health product portfolio and allows PRN to better serve patients through offering an expanded suite of science-based eye health products."
The deal builds on PRN's strategy to grow its presence in the eye health market organically and through acquisitions. Avenova® will represent the sixth add-on acquisition completed by PRN in the past 5 years.
Please see the NovaBay® Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NBY) press release for information regarding their go-forward plans following this transaction.
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Pump me up
NVDS short side at play. All eyes on Apple Store sales for 16 start today. Markets can start falling as Apple sales bellwether for the Giant 7 NVDA GOOG MSFT AMZN….
Added some 4.43
Not a soul waiting in line for a 16. How times have changed
Pump me up .. older news
Expion360 Inc. (Nasdaq: XPON) (“Expion360” or the “Company”), an industry leader in lithium-ion battery power storage solutions, today announced a new partnership with Alaskan Camper, LLC d/b/a Alaskan Campers. Through this collaboration, Expion360's state-of-the-art 12.8V GC2 162Ah VHC internally heated battery will come standard in all of Alaskan Campers’ truck camper product lines.
All out $4.90s seems stuck some
GDHG and BNZI
Let’s get going $4.40s +!73%
RR 1.12 + 20%
.22 + 76%
About same 6.45 +118%
Nice return today
Hit .76 resistance next would be $1 low floater heaven gods lol
Nice dip $15.70s BTC to $100,000 next
$2.88s - 30% down 30% Adding some soon love post split dumps give me cheap goodies. Give me 50% down at least someone’s new junk my treasure
Bitcoin $100,000 coming :Go for cryptos again many reasons once they have mid morning sell off. Trump pushing Bitcoin also
ELWS MARA RIOT CAN HIVE BTCM BTDR BTCS
MATH CLSK WULF IREN ANY BITF ARBK HUT MIGI GREE BTBT MARA RIOT SOS SDIG COIN NUKK CGA OCTO CIFR LMFA BRRR
The next reverse split champ coming to a neighborhood near you soon. Watch for the post beat down after reverse split completed then go for it
In some .38s looks bottomy typical hedgie beat down bio
.52 resistance doubt it goes to .69 next resistance.
Nice job there out early but that’s how I roll
How about .30 + 124% even better cash out time lol resistance at .34’seems next