🚀 Fedi Visibility: Who Can Hear You?
You decide who sees your words! This helps you manage your peace (Peaceful Power).

4 kinds
🌎 Public: Anyone on the internet can read this. (Yell it from the rooftop!)

💬 Quiet Public (Unlisted): Only people who follow you or have the link see it. It's hidden from the main town feed. (Whisper it to your close group.)

👥 Followers Only: Only your followers see it. Good for close groups and personal thoughts. (Tell your best friends.)

@ Private/DM: Only one person can read this. (Send a secret note.)

To support someone's post: Always Boost (share) the post! Likes are private compliments; Boosts are public help.

Which voice are you using today?

#FediTips #Visibility #Control

What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

A few people have asked my advice on this recently so I’m sharing here in case it’s useful:

• Check if models have been trained on your monographs here.
• If your work has already been used for training, it’s unlikely it will ever be removed from models. Therefore you’re effectively receiving some (inadequate) compensation for the theft of your intellectual property.
• If your work hasn’t been used for training, it’s a case of weighing up the advantages against the disadvantages. Training on your work means you might be more likely to be visible within the model (i.e. more likely to be invoked in response to a prompt about your domain) but this is a deeply unpredictable matter. Conversely it means your work might be diffused in a way that means your intellectual labour is chopped up and repackaged without any link to you.
• So it’s a case of considering how much you value the potential visibility, which I would argue is non-trivial, against how much the potential severing of the link between your ideas and your authorship bothers you.

If it helps, I agonised about this in my role as a literary executor (cared much less about my own work) and reached the conclusion that diffusion of the ideas is best served by being incorporated into training. I wouldn’t expect everyone to reach the same conclusion but I hope it’s useful to make these suggestions about factors to consider.

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