@BenjaminDEKR: The entire reason SpaceXAI bought Cursor is to harvest training data from people using it for coding. This is very obvi…
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The tweet discusses SpaceXAI's acquisition of Cursor to harvest coding training data, and questions OpenAI's decision to opt out their models from this data harvester.
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The entire reason SpaceXAI bought Cursor is to harvest training data from people using it for coding.
This is very obvious, and this advantage was openly touted as a huge win for xAI when the acquisition was announced.
Isn’t it SOMEWHAT reasonable for OpenAI to opt-out their advanced models being included in that training data harvester?
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