I am constantly surprised of how prescient my Media studies professor was back in 2007 about how everything has shaking out since then. "Your data is valuable don't give it away" is ringing in my ears as I give all my data away to openai
Identity-specific data is sold all the time for everything from advertising to credit scores and what would otherwise be called social credit scores of they were run by the government instead of private companies.
I'd be curious to see how the price compares when selling 10k individuals' data versus aggregate data the 10k people. Presumably if it was cheaper to buy all the individual data I would do that and aggregate it myself.
Private investigators, three letter agencies, and any company wanting to send mailers to my new address when I move all need the individual data to target me specifically.
I totally agree the aggregate data is given more value in a commercial market heavily focused on advertising and now training LLMs, my only point was that there are markets that highly value individual data as well.
I think the point stands that it wouldn't be easy to sell your individual data, and even if you could, it would be for a pittance from someone who is looking to build a large dataset. They certainly wouldn't be giving you an amount that justifies advice like "hold on to your data".
>What if I want to keep my history on but disable model training?
We are working on a new offering called ChatGPT Business that will opt end-users out of model training by default. In the meantime, you can opt out from our use of your data to improve our services by filling out this form. Once you submit the form, new conversations will not be used to train our models
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrnC-_A7JFs4LbIuze...
(There might be other concern, eg around privacy, about giving your data away. But worrying about value isn't really one of them as an individual.)
Data is a moat. If you share it you're giving your advantage away.
(And btw, piracy only makes the data less valuable, because you lose the ability to sell it to someone who already has it. Not because the game or movie etc would become less enjoyable.)