Robin Sloan’s take on AI training on Everything.

Least surprising thing ever. I do hope this makes it back to court hearings. I don’t really have an issue with LLMs in concept, but in practice these companies are really abhorrent.

Here’s to hoping!

Web review of Ervin

On the other side of the multiverse, over in the timeline where sharing is caring and where the downhill battle against the copyright trolls was won and where there’s an efficient peer-to-peer system for songs and videos, every now and then they take a look over at our dimension and they glance a li’l incredulously at what the heck we’re doing with our huge fossil-burning wasteful data centers to manage streaming and distribution and then other huge wasteful data centers make sure to keep it that way, to tear down anyone who’d dare to help distribute it.

Happy about this blog post.

While there are many really good arguments against ML, I’m not stoked that opponents to it have been weaponizing copyright. [Copyright is the enemy][Cite], and while I can understand the perspectives of “any port in a storm” or “desperate times call for desperate measures” or “my enemy’s enemy”, I still get to feel a li’l grumpy about it.