Synthetic data derived from production user data of consumer AI tools is used for training. I’ve heard this rumour from both large labs’ employees.
In particular, if you’re doing something “interesting” like working on complex math/business/software/bio problems you’re
Same playbook was done on developers with the first alphas of gpt and copilot. Now it's reaping academics who opted into the same surveillance capitalism.
I think the plan is to get researchers to start using their AI with a limited compute budget, then once they have all the academic data, they’ll basically steal all their ideas from underneath them and run the research internally with their unlimited compute budget!
Phala.com@PhalaNetwork are scammers
They advertise "+ $20 granted credits, applied first" but it is lie. A trick to get you to pay the $5 to enable their Confidential Models API, of which only consumes your paid-for credit and not their "$20 granted credits".