Nick Bloom

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   Stanford economist: remote-work digital chatter became a trove of LLM training data

   Citing a Business Insider interview, TechNews reports that Stanford University economist Nick Bloom argues the surge in digital communication after people left offices created large amounts of material for training large language models, turning casual kitchen-table chat into Slack threads that could be fed to LLMs. The article says that as most people shift to hybrid work, impromptu coffee chats and desk-side discussions leave no record, making it a problem for companies to obtain more training data; it also notes that recording office conversations would raise legal and regulatory issues. Bloom separately estimates that remote work raised fertility rates in the United States and Nordic countries by 5%, and lists six ways the WFH era fundamentally changed society.

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