"ChatGPT can generate plausible text. Because so many jobs involve humans speaking to each other, capitalists are drooling at the opportunity to save on all the labor costs that go into generating all this text. What they don't understand is that many human jobs involve producing language because those jobs involve human collaboration, and language is how we communicate."

@theluddite
https://theluddite.org/post/ai-research.html

🔥 saving this one

The note to make on this post is the domain. Fly is an hosting company so if “AI lets us go faster” and “AI makes bad code but we’re slowing down to make it usable” (paraphrased) is their self-contradictory policy, that puts a question mark on hosting with them

https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

Also, going “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” is almost admirable as a douchebag move, but it’s also the norm in tech. There is no class solidarity to speak of in tech.

Is there a hashtag, group, chatroom, forum, etc. For data scraping/archival re: US data purge? Specifically talking about raw data like data.gov rather than website crawling which seems to be handled by archiveteam and end of term archive. Like #USDataPurge or something

Edit: #SafeguardingResearch looks like another https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113921816307826784