Shouldn't this be the other way around? TikTok has the most user data for any LLM to train with. I bet they will make a killing with it, unless of course the CCP decrees that they share it for free.
Secondly, most data in China is shared among most companies anyway, because, firstly, the government (not necessarily CCP) orders most companies to share data with "technological leaders" and "strategically important" companies, and secondly because computer security is mostly an alien concept to Chinese.
Copyright (broadly speaking, most restrictions on unrestricted dissemination if data) is what is killing the US economy.
that's the main reason
i don't know how the situation is elsewhere, but in China, 2/3 of startups expose their databases on public network with a password 'abc123'
security is not a requirement for many startups, velocity is
You, personally, set the password to a public internet-facing database to 'abc123'?
And if you really did, how much do you estimate that increased your 'velocity'?
a month later, your manager decided to share it with other teams, the decision was made in a meeting which you're not invited
when the manager came to you, you asked:
- how about give me a week to make it a saas, with authn/authz
- no, we don't have the time, just tell them the endpoint and the password
another month later, something changed, your company built a partership with another company, your manager decided to share the project with teams in the other company
you asked:
- how about we do something like virtual network peering so that we can share a connected network with our parter
- it's complex, we can not change the network status of our partner, and we don't have a responsible role for this work, just give them the endpoint and the password
password 'abc123' is just a analogy, in this case, there's no password at all
They designate who is strategic, and those designated strategic tell them what kind of data they need.
(1) all videos are captioned, automatically then often again by the content creator manually. This data alone is extremely valuable for training purposes.
(2) the videos contain great information about slang terms, and youth vernacular. Which is unique data that is harder to find elsewhere.
(3) young people seem to use TikTok as a search engine, so presumably some of the videos' content must be explicitly valuable enough as an information source, similar to YouTube.