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> After I've consented

Well LLMs have already stolen everything you ever wrote or posted online.

We told y'all to advocate for a very strict regulation of these things.

But no.

Instead: It's amazing. It's world changing.

Yes. It's going to change the world. For much worse. If you thought Citizens United damaged democracy just wait. Elections will be won by those with the most compute aka the most money everywhere.

People will die of this bullshit. I can't foretell how but they will. I mean, I haven't foreseen AI generated mushroom books but I am absolute certain this technology is deadly. Just wait.

Everything AI generated should come with an unskippable, extremely obvious huge warning of being AI generated and free of facts. If the AI companies won't add these then we should force them by regulation. But no. Hype instead.

How can anything you put online be "stolen" anyways? Its a 30 year old truth that you shouldn't put anything online you dont want anyone else to use... Long before LLMs were a reality. Why the fuzz now?

I do not recall any such truth.

It's a truism the Internet doesn't forget.

But copyright is copyright and copying some work just because it's published on the Internet is illegal, it always was and still is.

A law is only relevant if you are able to enforce it. I suspect if you arent a huge corporation, you'll likely have a hard time enforcing your copyright. So, the truth for individuals still stands. Dont put it online if you dont want it to be pirated. And huge corporations have a legal department protecting its interests, so tzhey dont need support from the public....

> Well LLMs have already stolen everything you ever wrote or posted online.

I kind of expected that someone will steal something I write or post online, so this doesn’t particularly bother me.

> We told y'all to advocate for a very strict regulation of these things.

> But no.

Simply legislation doesn't work that fast. Building up consensus about what needs legislation and how it needs legislation takes time.

> Instead: It's amazing. It's world changing.

People don't all think with a single mind. The people who find it amazing are not necessarily the same who complains about it.

there are reddit and twitter for y'all to peddle snarky holier-than-thou soapboxing about le current thing

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