Saying "nobody should be forced to use LLMs" is like saying "if you don't like tobacco, don't smoke it" on airplane where people are smoking tobacco.
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@Tock See also: "secondhand surveillance" https://www.offrecordzones.org/
Discussing hypothetical "reasonable & ethical" LLM usage only feeds into slopaganda narratives and fundamentally misunderstands the problem. The only way some comparable technology might be "reasonable & ethical" is if the model was not Large, but then you're not talking about a Large Language Model.
In a world where the biggest companies in the world are getting away with not even respecting the most basic copyright license requirement of attribution, imagine thinking that the solution is a new copyright license.
Posters on random street poles are exhibiting stronger leadership than Slopware Freedom Conservancy.
When they posted their Hot Take About AI (https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html), I thought it was misguided but didn't really have the bandwidth to care. But after seeing bkuhn harass someone over criticism, I'm disgusted with the organization.
@be "AI is the new smoking." This is a fair take.