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I’m a dev and I was browsing Mozilla’s careers page and came across this. I find a privacy respecting company being interested in building an AI powered recommendation engine a little odd. Wouldn’t they need to sift through the very data we want private in order for a recommendation engine to be good? Curious of what others think.

  • fiat_lux
    34•10 months ago

    Mozilla has a huge amount of information already submitted by volunteers to train their own specific-subject LLM.

    And as we saw from Meta’s nearly ethical-consideration-devoid CM3Leon (no i will not pronounce it “Chameleon”) paper, you don’t need a huge dataset to train if you supplement with your own preconfigured biases. For better or worse.

    Just because something is “AI-powered” doesn’t mean the training datasets have to be acquired without ethics. Even if there is something to be said for making material public and the inevitable consequences it can be used.

    I hope whoever gets the job can help pave the way for ethics standards in AI research.

    • @markOP
      -3•10 months ago

      Ironically, this comment reads just like an AI wrote it.

      • fiat_lux
        11•10 months ago

        The irony of AI-generated responses being difficult to distinguish from the rules educators harassed me to comply with is something I’ve found pretty amusing lately. It’s a bias built into the system, but has the opposite unintended effect of delegitimising actual human opinions. What an own-goal for civilisation.

        I am regrettably all too human. I have even been issued hardware keys to prove it!

  • trent
    6•10 months ago

    Interesting, but probably harmless if it’s one-shot. In general, it seems like a bad idea. Not any better or worse than other recommendations systems. Mozilla should look into FHE.

  • @[email protected]
    5•10 months ago

    AI topic is getting crazy, just got a request at work to investigate and figure out how AI can could be used at our own company. Not that there’s real need, just to be sure…

  • Pablo
    3•10 months ago

    I don’t think it’s odd. They can use data, that they already have and make us of it.

  • @[email protected]
    1•10 months ago

    Yeeeeeah this is a little sus. AI is more about surveillance than actually providing a service but let them cook I guess? Maybe they’re just following the marketing trends and the trends say put AI somewhere in your ad copy to get people to look at you. Just another buzzword…I hope.