jacquelines 🌟u programmed this with claude? the ai platform for bombing schools?
Jamin@jacqueline imh this is the same as saying "You are using the same pen as they did sign the Nuremberg laws with". People are accountable for these atrocities, AIs are just another (problematic) tool enabling bad people to do bad things more efficiently. Don't forget who is truly responsible here.
Æ.@vyllenjamnin @jacqueline they really aren't "just tools". This analogy is just wrong and extremely misleading.
They are services provided by an organization that have politics embedded into them.
A pen doesn't influence WHAT you're writing. An LLM's training process, which is controlled and managed by people with certain politics, very much influences what it's output will be.
allison@aesthr @vyllenjamnin @jacqueline plus (a) pens *do* influence how and what we write (think of how ball point pens made cursive writing obsolete) and have political/cultural meaning (e.g. trump's executive order sharpies); and (b) uhhh if someone consciously decided to write something with the pen they wrote the nuremberg laws with, it would *absolutely* shape the way i interpret what they wrote. all tools are political, especially writing tools
@aesthr my intention was to agree with you and to support your underlying point...? even people who design pens (or other writing tools, from movable type to letraset on up the chain to word processors and llms) have political goals (implicit or explicit) that influence how people engage in communication with those tools