RocketmanJun 26

The LLM tech bros all talk about “frontier models”

and it strikes me that this use of settler colonialist language is surprisingly appropriate.

They’re enclosing the commons of our knowledge and our culture. They’re putting up barbed wire, so they can make us pay rent for everything.

Show threadtiny_mJun 26
@slothrop I agree about enclosure, same with the walled gardens and app stores. The internet should be free to publish, free to consume, free to share. It is absolutely digital commons and we should protect it. I see AI as a way to poison the well, anything they can't control in a walled garden they pollute to the point of not being usable. It's really gross and also quite scary but I am optimistic that there are ways to circumvent it.
Show threadMark T. Tomczak
@tiny_m @slothrop Ironically, the tool might end up being more AI: recognizers keyed to identify "AI-like" output to act as filters.
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Show threadtiny_mJun 26
@mark @slothrop perhaps, I also think there is and will be a greater desire for things which are genuinely human made, or which only a human can create. Perhaps a rise in people wanting more real world interaction, or things which you can only experience in a way that isn't automated. I don't know. It's hard to be optimistic but I think it's also important to imagine positive narratives and part of the way out of the dystopia is thinking of ways to make the world better.
Show threadMark T. TomczakJun 26
@tiny_m @slothrop Agreed. I suspect we're going to see a new version of the wood-paneling fad from the '70s: "We could have made this with a fully-automated process, but this one was hand-carved by a chainsaw artist in Smalltown, Iowa..."