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Who are you quoting?

It's a common sentiment. An example from few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558954

> I have absolutely zero interest in free. I honestly don't think I'm even remotely in the same demographic as people using free tiers / models. I want to pay. I don't want my data used for training...

They want to use LLMs trained on others code but don't want to contribute with their own.

Not casting judgement, just pointing out.

I don't really use LLMs myself, but if someone wants to have any kind of software business then having the models trained on their products isn't ideal.

It makes sense from a business perspective-SaaS firms value the ability of coding agents to accelerate development, but also worry the models will learn the secret sauce of their business and destroy its moat. So their desire to contractually exclude training on their data has some logic to it.

(Disclaimer: Not speaking for or about my current employer, just a general industry observation.)

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