Tell HN: I am self-censoring on social media, to avoid AI

There was always the implicit knowledge that all content posted on social media platforms is privately stored by corporations. However, there is now the additional incentive to actively scan and process this content to train AI language models.

I’ve noticed lately in myself that this new perception makes me more self-conscious than before, to the point where I am self-censoring and avoiding to post in my natural, individual “voice”. My unique linguistic character is something I don’t really wish to be modelled and subsequently plagiarised by arbitrary corporations.

This is in addition to prior concerns of fingerprinting the writing style, which presumably is going to become more and more precise, and enables correlating “alt” accounts, perhaps even across platforms.

Technically-inclined people have always recognised those risks. But the success of chatGPT in capturing mainstream’s imagination might make more people aware of this reality. Is this making anyone else reluctant to post original content on social media? Will the quality of online social interactions suffer, because of this suspicion that you risk your “personality” and ideas being analysed, modelled and stolen by the platform you’re using?