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LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem | LinkedIn will hold users responsible for sharing any policy-violating misinformation created by its own AI tools (www.theregister.com)

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Microsoft's LinkedIn will update its User Agreement next month with a warning that it may show users generative AI content that's inaccurate or misleading.

LinkedIn thus takes after its parent, which recently revised its Service Agreement to make clear that its Assistive AI should not be relied upon.

LinkedIn, however, has taken its denial of responsibility a step further: it will hold users responsible for sharing any policy-violating misinformation created by its own AI tools.

The relevant passage, which takes effect on November 20, 2024, reads:

Generative AI Features: By using the Services, you may interact with features we offer that automate content generation for you. The content that is generated might be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, misleading or not suitable for your purposes. Please review and edit such content before sharing with others. Like all content you share on our Services, you are responsible for ensuring it complies with our Professional Community Policies, including not sharing misleading information.

In short, LinkedIn will provide features that can produce automated content, but that content may be inaccurate. Users are expected to review and correct false information before sharing said content, because LinkedIn won't be held responsible for any consequences.

The platform's Professional Community Policies direct users to "share information that is real and authentic" – a standard to which LinkedIn is not holding its own tools.

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used it for awhile to find a job recently. It’s all recruiters contacting you that have no idea what your skill set is so they just end up wasting your time

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm always getting recruiters telling me that I am a perfect match for some software development job or 3D artist or AI engineer, I've never worked in those industries in my life, I work in cyber security but the skill sets are not really transferable.

But they just see "complicated computer stuff" and assume that all complicated computer stuff they don't understand is interchangeable with all other complicated computer stuff they don't understand.

It would be like asking a structural engineer to become an architect. The surface that makes sense but when you spend 4 seconds thinking about it you realize it doesn't work.

Also for some bizarre reason they always seem to be in Dubai