Moe C
Thu, 11/13/2025 – 17:20
Like Paul, and so many others, a publish of mine has been used as a supply for a chatbot reply. It is a public discussion board, understood, however I do not like this one bit. Not one bit, I inform ya.
Suppose I am going to go dwell within the backyard shed for awhile.
Some time again, I used to be asking Grok about some baking element, and observed that it listed TFL as certainly one of its sources.
Typically a chatbot goes on an web search, identical as you or I’d. And typically I’ve observed that the content material of a web page does not help what the chatbot stated. So this does not essentially imply it was skilled on all of the TFL posts. In reality, the underlying LLM typically does not know the place its data got here from. Similar to most of us…
TomP
I get what you are saying. It is the concept of something semi-relevant we have posted wherever on-line being discovered and introduced to the world (so to talk) in a way more environment friendly method that an previous net browser may do. I prefer to toil in relative obscurity. After all, we all know that something that is posted can come again to chunk, as many cancelees have discovered. This publish of mine that was used as a source–it opened with a remark about my husband. The remark was innocuous, nevertheless it gave me the willies seeing it on a chatbot.
A Davey reply is perhaps: do not wish to be seen, do not publish. Get pleasure from.
This thread reinforces my strategy to posting on boards. I normally attempt to restrict the quantity of private information I embrace in a publish to try to stay nameless as doable on the web. I’ve additionally refused to have any Meta (Fb, Instagram), X, or different social media accounts. For essentially the most half, these websites do extra hurt than good. I do have a Flickr account as a result of there are a number of good photographers on it, particularly posting historic and present railroad photographs.
One drawback I do have is that there are some people and industrial entities that publish solely on FB or Instagram. For instance, Lance (@albacore) not too long ago posted a hyperlink to Ian Lowe’s sourdough guidelines on Instagram. I am inquisitive about what Ian has to say, however I can not view the publish or all of the feedback to see the entire dialogue. However I am prepared to forego that inconvenience to maintain my on-line profile low.
I am a lot the identical method. I used to be in a position to learn Lance’s publish although I’ve no account. After all, that put my laptop’s IP tackle into Instagram’s logs, however that may occur with most websites you go to. It additionally put an Instagram cookie on my system however I’ve eliminated it. I now not do that with FaceBook, although.
If I wished to affix any social community, I would give a Mastodon server a strive. However I do not really feel impelled.
How did you handle to learn the publish? I wasn’t profitable at seeing something.
