Mastodawn

If AI/LLMs are cut off from stolen human labour, their outputs turn to meaningless gibberish due to model collapse.

If AI/LLM owners are forced to pay for human labour instead of stealing it, they go bankrupt.

If AI/LLM data centres are forced to stay within energy consumption levels compatible with fighting climate change, they have to close down the overwhelming majority of their capacity.

AI/LLMs are just not sustainable, they can only function through labour theft and burning the planet. They're not so much new technology as a new type of ponzi scheme.

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Adrian Cockcroft Nov 16

@FediThing If you substitute “human” for “AI/LLM” in that text, it’s still true.

No, it's not.

Humans can come up with new ideas on their own, they aren't dependent on just recycling other people's ideas.

Where would new ideas come from in the first place if humans were just recycling them?

AI/LLM comes up with zero, it has no intelligence at all. It's just looking at what humans say and spitting it back at humans based on statistical probability. That's why its answers are contradictory and make no sense, that's why it is totally dependent on being fed ever larger amounts of human data.

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Adrian Cockcroft Nov 19

@FediThing Give me an example of a new idea that a human had, that isn’t a product of cross domain synthesis, random guessing, adjacency or other emergent properties that LLMs already do.

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Adrian Cockcroft

@FediThing I ran the innovation program at eBay research labs in 2005 and have spent a lot of time trying to help companies innovate, and the sources of innovation aren’t that special from my experience. Most companies systematically shut down innovation, but it’s easy to generate new ideas themselves.