tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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Not gonna get into it right now (gotta go to bed) but labeling criticism of LLM based "AI" as "purity culture" and that one can just legitmize using any and all tech if one just somehow creates "free and open" versions of it is not a good take. Really not. Refusing to use LLMs on ethical grounds is also not a claim that problems are solved "by shopping carefully". That's a lot of straw men just to legitimize using an LLM to do spellcheck. Maybe just do it and don't try to throw people under the bus who aim for something better.

[Edit: removed a snarky comment that didn't need to be there]

tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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This whole argument says that anything you ever do is okay, as long as something "free and open" comes out of it. But the free and open torment nexus is a torment nexus and needs to be destroyed.

Also technology does not need to be "liberated" (and often cannot, artifacts do have politics). If anything needs liberating it's people. And I don't see how LLMs (even the open weights ones) are doing that.

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