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Jason Koebler
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Massive e-learning platform Udemy is training its AI on instructors' classes. It gave them a short "opt-out" window to reject this. Instructors are surprised to learn that time has passed. www.404media.co/massive-e-le...

Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.
Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.

Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.

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Ah, training your replacement. Sweet.

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This is crazy, but it also highlights the fact that companies have no good way to delete your data once it's already been scraped. Udemy is at least being transparent about that. So what are other companies doing?

To honor this commitment, we designed our GenAI program and models to exclude content from any instructors who have chosen to opt out of this program. That being said, given the substantial time investment required to ensure this content is completely removed from our GenAI tools, we’ll be offering this participation period window to all existing Udemy instructors on an annual basis, enabling them to reassess their participation each year as our AI tools continue to evolve.
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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @ 404 Media
3.5k followers66 following269 posts