I just finished filing my claim with the #Anthropic settlement, which used FIFTEEN of my books to train the goddamned Temu Terminator, and I am fucking furious and heartbroken about it:
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement
@Catvalente What are these people anyway? Building a society for machines, on the terms of machines?
To get rich, sure, but to not build for humans to begin with?
I think they are suffering from a cognitive impairment. These are not the deeds of healthy men. 🤔
@gimulnautti @Catvalente Oligarchs are doing a capital strike. As Cat said, they already have all the money, so this is how they circulate it among themselves, preventing it from ever being used to help us.
LLM datacenters swipe our drinking water and electricity, make our next computers unaffordable or unavailable, and of course, replace our jobs with a war against knowledge. We can’t create an economy among ourselves (think Black Wall Street) while they are the toll collectors of reality, hoarding all current and future wealth. Capital strike.
Catherynne M. Valente
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