I don’t mean to speak on behalf of @iisips but for me, personally, if someone were to read all of my comments about a species and try to learn how to tell them apart from another species, I’d be very happy.
If the characters were wrong like in this case, I’d happily correct them and explain further. Because it is teaching and helping a real, living, breathing, curious human. Someone cared about what you wrote, read it all and learned/tried to learn what they are curious about.
A synthetic machine vacuuming everything you wrote and trying to write something like a guide without actually understanding it and actually thinking… I think that’s very different.
But if it’s a human, go on, read everything I wrote.
None of us born with those knowledge, I(and others) learn things from books and articles other people wrote. A person can think, understand, learn about a topic. As far as I know, LLMs don’t “understand” or “know” what they are talking about.
I think you, as a person, reading what other people wrote and learning about them is very different than a machine reading that all in seconds and writing a text that sounds right, without actually “knowing” what it is writing about.
I see nothing wrong with someone learning from other’s comments.
But when it’s feeding a machine with this comments. I think you need to ask for commenter’s consent.
Yes they did post it to a public place but I still think you need to ask if it’s okay and if that person says “no”, you shouldn’t do it(or in this case, shouldn’t do it again).
Those are my opinions.
If I’m wrong about AI feel free to correct me.(But please explain like I’m five)
Edit: Also, isn’t teaching other people is.. why we wrote those comments in the first place?