AI’s become so invasively popular and I’ve seen more evidence of its ineffectiveness than otherwise, but what I dislike most about it is that many run on datasets of stolen data for the sake of profitability à la OpenAI and Deepseek
https://mashable.com/article/openai-chatgpt-class-action-lawsuit https://petapixel.com/2025/01/30/openai-claims-deepseek-took-all-of-its-data-without-consent/
Are there any AI services that run on ethically obtained datasets, like stuff people explicitly consented to submitting (not as some side clause of a T&C), data bought by properly compensating the data’s original owners, or datasets contributed by the service providers themselves?
I heard about Notebook LM recently. I couldn’t tell you what it’s trained on but I’m order to use the LLM you need to provide it source material.
So say you’re writing something for school. You can gather 50+ papers on the subject you’re trying to write about, upload them, then ask the LLM about what you uploaded. Sounds like turning research from a search for info to an interview with an “expert.”
Again I can’t speak to how it was trained in the background but this seems genuinely useful.