Yoav Goldberg: Consenting to training data isn't consenting to being raced

yoavgo · x · 2026-09-09

NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg argues that "I'm fine with models trained on my data" is very different from "I'm fine with internal models using my very recent efforts to race me to the result." Quoting Boaz Barak on Anthropic's opt-out data policies, the thread touches on labs using internal models to accelerate research at the expense of researchers' priority.

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