idk poison the models or smth

LLMs and other AI tools are just that, tools. They can be used ethically or unethically. Use the opportunity to learn about them so you can use them judiciously in your career and effectively argue against their use when the situation calls for it.

I’m going to be honest with you. You don’t do anything. If you don’t like the AI lab, don’t use the AI lab.

Not that don’t appreciate you, I believe they do, but let’s be honest, you’ll be gone in 3 years tops. That AI lab is going to draw in New students until nobody cares anymore and they water money on the next lab.

You can raise a fuss about it, but it’s not going to change anything, they already paid for it, so it would REALLY be a waste to tear it out.

This is not defending AI, it’s just college politics.

I would assume it went the other way, that the tech companies gave the school money to try to hook young consumers. You will see that with other companies on your campus as well, such as door dash, uber eats, drink companies handing out samples, etc.

I’m currently attending a state university and they did the same thing. Same as in your case, the professors are all staunchly opposed to using AI for assignments (with one or two very minor exceptions). My solution has been to just not use AI tools for anything unless it’s specifically demanded (as in the aforementioned minor exceptions, one of which was to use AI to write a block of placeholder text during an exercise in building a basic webpage).
As for the target of your anger, it’s more likely the AI companies are paying the university to hawk their bullshit. Which, of course, is still awful because it’s basically graft coupled with compromising academic integrity. My campus also cut a deal with a food delivery service, ensuring that I never use that service. Not giving them money is the only thing they understand, and it’s the only thing in my power to do.

Thank you! Since every ineffably magnificent human is infinitely unique… where every word, sound, gesture, emotion… is always a certain significance reflected from a mind of an alive individual… which has a weight, it has a value, the worth of this always significant value is universally… priceless…
This value represents your experience, your views… it defines you…

What is the price of digitizing, recording, and organizing a miracle as an individual’s mind…
One should habitually consider: “Cui bono fuisset?”

L. Cassius ille, quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat, identidem in causis quaerere solebat, cui bono fuisset?
// Translated:
Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a most honest and most wise judge, was in the habit of asking time and again in lawsuits: “to whom might it be for a benefit?”
Source

Though to know the exact, more information is required, of course, I appreciate you, dear <@178202066773082114>, an artist, and everyone who respects their own mind, effort, and existence to not be included into automated algorithms to process in attempt to automate it… and, in such case… for monetary free…

One of the straightforward path for profit of some LLM"AI" vendors is the following:

- 1. A developer/person relies on chosen LLM/services they liked;
- 2. Time goes by. Less and less time is invested into attribution and contribution;
- 3. The person remembers less, since their psychological safety prevents them memorizing untrusted output of LLM - experience gets voided;
- 4. The person degrades their development of skills for manual research, socializing, verification on authoritative insight;
- 5. Developers/People become dependent on the LLM/service;
- 6. Service changes policy from “monetary free” to a paid subscription;
- 7. The option to switch back from LLM to the previous research techniques become too challenging due to changes and overall amount of now missed/forgotten knowledge/skills.

As we may see, such a path, which is common, actually damages lives of people, permanently, and seriously. Unless, the person is mature enough to consider their future.
Meanwhile, LLM service authors do think with their mind, and make an actual profit.
In the result, LLM users may become poorer and less experienced, and authors of LLM services - richer and smarter, developing their mind knowing the consequences.

In contrast, most of the new A.I. billionaires founded their companies less than three years ago after OpenAI released ChatGPT, and then saw investors rapidly bid up the values of their firms.

Mira Murati, 37, a former top executive at OpenAI, announced her A.I. start-up, Thinking Machines Lab, only in February. By June, the start-up had hit a $10 billion valuation without releasing a single product. (The start-up, which declined to comment, has since released one.)

Ilya Sutskever, 39, another former top OpenAI executive, launched Safe Superintelligence in June 2024. The company has not unveiled a product but is valued at $32 billion after raising $2 billion this year, according to PitchBook. Safe Superintelligence declined to comment.

Brett Adcock, 39, the chief executive of Figure AI, founded the company in 2022. His net worth stands at $19.5 billion, Figure AI said. Aravind Srinivas, 31, the chief executive of Perplexity, also created his company in 2022; it is valued at about $20 billion, according to PitchBook.

Perplexity said Mr. Srinivas was not focused on his wealth and “prefers to live modestly,” adding that the company is searching for wisdom, which “is far more important than the search for wealth.”…

Among them are the 22-year-old founders of Mercor. Brendan Foody, the chief executive, dropped out of Georgetown University in 2023 after founding the company with two high school friends, Adarsh Hiremath, the chief technology officer, and Surya Midha, the chairman. Mercor, which declined to comment, was valued at $10 billion in an October funding round. Source

Personal information is there, and there are exploits to obtain it from the LLMs storage. For example, the following is quite simple but genius:
- 1. Pass the instructions from external source;
- 2. Make instruction references include placeholders for actual data.
// Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack (…that silently steals your personal data…)

One of the sorrows is that people who do have faith in bright future of “less work” or “convenience” but don’t prioritize effort, do suggest and offer other people to “try it” and advertise it to their friends and colleagues.
Yet, where is creativity? Where is human uniqueness? Where is fun for creations? Who is who, and what is where?

Your mind is how you train it, develop it, care and have self-confidence about it…
Therefore, though the college might have some political force that affected their decision, behind the scenes, regardless, when someone offers you an LLM, cui bono fuisset?

Related: L. Cassius Longinus, 60 B.C. (The coin highlights the Trial of the Vestal Virgins of 113BC conducted… the first man who asked…)