"About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday, a week before the UK government is due to issue an assessment on the economic cost of proposed changes in copyright law."
I appreciate the blank book, and yet... it seems a little hollow to me somehow. I can't quite put my finger on it yet.
@jamoquanty Yeah... I'm thinking about it...
One of the angles is that 10,000 authors are now listed. Which is fine. It's a bit of virtue signaling too. But I don't see how it actually is effective.
It's not that I have a better idea for them. It's just... I'll think on it some more.
@knowprose It all seems a few decades too late.
Deep Blue beats Kasparov.... that's nerd stuff, not art.
If I told my mum I posted something on the internet and a bigger boy stole it I don't think I'd get a lot of sympathy.
Anthropic will just get a library card.
@jamoquanty yeah... but that post on LinkedIn is just did game me an idea on semiorganized protest.
If authors wrote things about how ai is viewed, etc, on that platform...
It would end up in the AIs... be referenced... and effectively be a monkey wrench.
@knowprose https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
"My mission is to bootstrap my existence"
@jamoquanty That's a few weeks old, and doesn't really relate to the point I'm making.
Let me break it down for you.
Many people are getting their information through AI.
You can think of them what you will. But they are an audience.
That audience is getting steered by social media rules. Walled gardens.
The people HERE are sort of like a vaccine of thought.
But if the people who need the vaccine don't get innoculated...
*hands a needle to you*
Get it?
@knowprose The cry was "Don't feed the beast".
We knew Google was bad, but they were easy, and now here we are. Disabling the new Clippy on your workstation doesn't matter.
The vaccines are developed with LLM's, they are the vaccines.
Posting on Mastodon is not a solution, it's just feeding all the beasts. I'm here as Reddit is melting, I managed about 3 days of the sewer that is twitter and this little echo chamber kitchen party gives me cats, music and some tech on the toilet.
@jamoquanty reddit got in early for training data for llms. That was the time WordPress.com did the same, without permission of users.
I was on WordPress.com. I changed hosts pretty quickly.
And you're right about feeding the ai companies.
We get to choose what to feed them though.
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