Specifically it’s data useful for training language models. Using text generated by another model has been shown to be counterproductive. This is why so many companies are trying to lock down access to their user generated content and set up data sale agreements for access to data prior to the major release of large language models.
Realistically the best thing you can do is let it go and have the satisfaction you were right. No interview is perfect, there are false positive and negative hires. Don’t take it personally.
This is what I'm thinking. I have no realistic way of proving it. Like in no way would I want to work in a culture like that. It just feels kinda slimy. Like "your ideas are valuable, but you're not."
It's entirely possible they liked your idea but didn't think you were a good fit for other reasons. Or they found someone else who is a better fit. Or someone else had the same idea.
I don't think they should be obliged to hire you just because you had this one idea that helped them.
It's possible they were not interviewing you in good faith, but just wanted free advice. But that's impossible to prove, and several other explanations that don't require bad faith are entirely plausible.
No! This attitude is why we’re moving to a low trust situation in the modern world: because no one holds any morals and values beyond “get what’s yours”. People shouldn’t treat other people like this!
Yeah the best you could do is devote your entire life to hurting them specifically: find out their customers, undercut their service fees. Poach their employees. Use software tools to overwhelm their hiring process with ruses. Get into their supply chain and increase their costs. Find out where the high level executives get their vices and disrupt them.
But would be a total psycho with an exhausting life for most people... So best to just learn that ideas are a dime a dozen, dont give them out for free if they are good
If you’re on campus you might want to consider jobs like TA, desk attendant or lab monitor. Most of them have lots of downtime and will pay decent so you can work on your own studies/projects.
I think it’s the other way around. Give the average person an insanely high salary to spend on healthy food, designer prescription drugs and supplements, the ability to direct their own work hours, a great health plan and subsidized gym membership and see what happens.
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