One advantage to working on freely-licensed projects for over a decade is that I was forced to grapple with this decision far before mass scraping for AI training.
@molly0xfff with YouTube and TikTok so massive, I don’t believe we need to be anywhere near as concerned with bandwidth as we were when flash intros stalked the earth.
And if a blog post isn’t worth a 20 second load, is it worth a 30 minute read?
@molly0xfff@leon ...if your multimedia website is hard to parse by bots it will also be hard for accessibility tools that for instance vision impaired users rely on.
"Establishing that AI training requires a copyright license will not stop AI from being used to erode the wages and working conditions of creative workers. ... Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant multinational corporations for the right to bleed us out." – @pluralistic
@molly0xfff@pluralistic Agree, copyright does help indie artists get paid but it also asymmetrically gets abused for profit by megacorps. We shouldn't hold copyright up as some perfect moral good. It has issues.
Ultimately I want to see a more thriving and vibrant public domain. The rise of AI hasn't changed this.
One flaw of the LLMs I've used: they will never give you harsh criticism. While it would be nice to think all my writing is just that good, I know there are no circumstances where someone will ask for feedback and it will say “throw the whole thing out and start again.”
@molly0xfff Harsh criticism isn’t the dominant strain in the responses to text which sounds like your input text. Right? It cannot actually critique, unless I am missing something…so you just get the tone that your writing tone matches. Which would be positive since you are a good, friendly, open writer.
If only there was some way to prompt it with “assume this was written by a black trans woman on the internet”. If the safety filters didn’t work (and the context was encoded in the weights…) I’d assume the response would be as vicious as you could desire.
@molly0xfff@luis_in_brief Reddit? So it will advise you to dump anyone you ever mention, say that people on Reddit are stupid, and go into incoherent racists rants and refuse reality at the drop of a hat?
@molly0xfff yeah, i’m always confused when people assert that the primary use for LLMs is writing, imo it’s their worst use. then again, i like writing, so idk, maybe i’m biased
@molly0xfff Just thinking outloud here and with no experience with such LLM feedback, wouldn't one potentially useful prompt be to ask it to read you thing and summarize the key takeaways? Earlier in my life, getting that kind of feedback from a human was helpful. It only had to be a human who was smart, educated to whatever level was necessary, and who knew nothing about my particular topic. 1/2