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It's very important to call out, criticize and push out LLM usage for creative expression (writing, art, music, code).
But we also should not make "hunting LLM usage" our identity because it can also bind so much energy we could invest in building something better.
(I am in the target audience for this post)
@randogoth I don't see "AI" as just a narrative problem, "open source community AI" (based on similar logics and structures as the one we see from Anthoic/OpenAI etc) would also be just as bad. I went into my reasoning a bit here:
I had a wonderful art teacher, Carolyn M. I asked her what made an artist great.
She said, we praise the archer who shoots at the distant target. There's no praise in shooting at the broad side of a barn.
It's all quite cleverly done, rather like those stiff Georgian portraits, mechanical and no less artificial. Reynolds, Gainsborough, we ooh and ah over them but a goodly fraction of their work was assembly line trade.
@tante I read the experience of an indie game developer that, first, researched a problem, then contacted the original authors of their game engine, before finally consulting AI and arriving at a 10 lines-of-code fix to their problem, and you know what, I can't blame them. Software developers failed them and the LLM didn't.
Us software developers really haven't been doing ourselves any favours the last two decades.
@tante This is a great reminder. I had to tweak some of my follows on here because my feed was starting to lean heavily into that second mindset. I think I struck a healthier balance.
@tante look you're not alone and that scrutiny side of things is needed too
@tante I can't directly verify this, but there may be measures taking place to further develop the Tor network, to establish LLM's to decipher the most abusive application of Tech Bros AI, and potentially develop further countermeasures.
@tante how about teaching people ways to express themselves creatively and how LLM can be a tool with potential to both support but also limit that process. It's a technology with a narrative and currently big corp writes it. Instead it needs to be a common good whose uses, harms and limits need to be learned and educated about. By making #NoAI an identity we will neither prevent nor improve that technology.