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One of the main objections I have to "large model" AI is that it is a form of piracy that fails to serve as an accurate form of archival. https://vis.social/@bleeptrack/117560078386333325
Every AI scraper develops an archive of copyrighted works that would put any library on earth to shame. Then they only let you access it it horrifically garbled, with semantic noise added, and through a straw
@mcc first they steal it, then they go bankrupt, then they sell the data for pennies
@mcc Also, when they scrape the real world, i.e. books, magazines etc. they FUCKING DESTROY THEM IN THE PROCESS, which I'm pretty sure is the opposite of preservation...
@mcc Malarchyval?
@mcc That's why you feed whatever LLM you use garbage on purpose so their data becomes meaningless and by doing so no one will want to use it. #PoisonTheData #PoisonData
@Wiz4rd_of_Aus Theoretically anything you feed into the LLM goes into the context window, not the training set. Unless the AI companies are lying to us. Would AI companies do that? Just lie?
@mcc That's what I mean. Do it anyway incase they are lying.
@mcc what if a bt client that always trains a (toy) transformer model as it downloads anything, this ought to now have a lot of legal status now right?
@mcc look at us, preserving these books. we're preserving them so hard that we're physically shredding them!
what? no! we were FORCED to shred them, by this ASSHOLE judge who said it would be copyright infringement otherwise! blame HIM, not US, who could have simply not trained on these books and chose to shred them anyway!
@mcc this clicked some things into place in my brain hard enough that I want to scream now
@mcc@mastodon.social It's frustrating to find stuff with too given how it works internally and dnesn't understand the material. I try and search up a schematic and the google AI I can't get rid of wants to direct me to useless places with made-up answers
@Selinica I've switched to another search engine where the AI has an off switch
Chokepoint Capitalism mind melded to Surveillance Capitalism and fossil fuel funded technofascism.
@mcc Must continue to pretend that it's not theft!
@mcc LLM, is I stole your work, and now you need to pay it, to access it!
@mcc Nailed it. We need laws against this.
The (imo) clear sign that this is intentional is that LLM interfaces are offered by those powers that disable access to the non-garbled indexes.
This begs the question of the goal of making access to public information harder.
The only answers I can see are ethically appalling.
Regardless of the question of the use of llms, the greater good of disabling free direct search is obviously non-existent.