Is Google’s Large Language Model Using Your Website Content As Training Data?

Results of a search of websites in Google's C4 dataset shows lireo.com ranks 442,028 with 53k tokens, representing 0.00003% of all tokens.

Remember the post I published in late March 2023, with steps you can take to restrict ChatGPT from using content from your WordPress site?

It may not have worked, if your site’s content was already scraped.

Which it did with this site, lireo.com.

Not what I expected.

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Photo of the Week: Plymouth ArtWalk

A modern style painting of a woman with dark hair in a long sleeveless orange dress plays the violin, abstract blue and white objects in the background.

If you happen to be walking down Penniman in downtown Plymouth, Michigan, take a moment to stroll through the alleys on the west side of the street.

You’ll find an amazing art exhibit on one of the red brick building walls north of Sean O’Callaghans, between Harvey and Main Street.

Sadly, there’s no information about the artists or titles with the paintings, something I’ve come to expect from outdoor art installations like the Detroit Institute of Arts Inside|Out program.

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Will You Accept the Quad Cyber Challenge?

Quad Cyber Challenge home page: Cybersecurity: Take the Quad Cyber Challenge. Calling on all internet users. Protect yourself and your devices.

Did you know 90% of cyber attacks succeed because of human error?

Or that sensitive personal information in your email or text message can potentially be seen by anyone on the web?

And that delaying security updates to your operating system can expose your personal information?

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