Blogger Exposes How AI Companies May Use Summaries to Train on Your Data Anyway

Blogger Erik Hoel and researcher Anthony Ronning argue that even with training opt-outs, AI vendors can still turn user content into summaries and rewrites to use as training data, exposing an industry-wide 'dirty secret'.

2026-10-22 ~ 2026-10-22 · 3 related posts

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