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If I want slop, I have my own Claude subscription. I’m willing to pay for hand crafted, artisanal knowledge and thought products, not someone else's margin spread between their token costs and their prices. “Vote with your wallet.”
Soon you'll be able to buy hand-crafted, artisanal knowledge and thought-derived prompts for your Claude subscription just like you used to buy hand-crafted, artisanal knowledge and thought-derived code for your computer.
Are prompts covered by copyright? Will we see "Prompt copying is killing the prompt industry - and it's illegal" on the prompt delivery service site?
I'm unsure Claude will be out there observing and reporting in meat space. "Three months maybe, six months definitely." LLMs and inference only sees what it can access digitally. It doesn't see or experience outside of the aquarium. How much does a goldfish in a bowl know about the world? Only about as far as it can see.
Human content when I want a human perspective, search engine results when I want a search engine for a lossy jpeg of the internet (or a sausage machine pushing tokens through a formal proof based or test driven system).
Most of the (Western?) world is covered in cameras, and I bet the video feeds will soon be feed into the training pipelines. And then as soon as AI is put in control of things like traffic lights, self-driving cars, logistics (e.g., delivery scheduling), then the AI will have a complete loop from which to learn: try something in the real world ("shorten this traffic light by 15s"), observe result ("traffic backs up Wednesdays at 8am"), repeat.
Who wants auto tune for the soul?
On the other hand "All USA , no foreigners made this" might offend some.
"No Belgians were involved in making this product" might be found to be more offensive. Yet consistent with "100% Made in the USA".
The distinction is in what they are broadcasting with their message.
As other people have said, if I wanted AI slop I'd just ask Claude.
I'm not "anti clanker" per se but I also don't have strong feelings about when and where this appliance is used. It is an appliance and tool, not a person, not a consciousness. For those who prefer machine generated content, that is a preference one can have.
I have only been noting that declarations of position that come across as moral judgements of others can offend people.
Anything can offend people if the people choose to be offended. And yes, all moral judgments can be offensive to some people, but that doesn't mean we abandon all morals and never take a stand on anything. As long as you're not actively hurting or intentionally offending people, it is okay to have your own moral stance.
In fact, getting offended by someone else's virtue system shows a lack of one in the first place imo.
If you extend your logic to expression of virtues in that manner, then you should fully accept the behaviour of the Westboro Baptist church as unoffensive.
I don't find Westboro Baptist Church's behavior virtuous, and I don't care how they express it. I'm not offended by their existence; I just think they're insane.
Why would them calling themselves virtuous offend me? If it did, it would imply that I believe my sense of virtue is "better" than their sense of virtue? In that case, isn't virtue signaling what I'm doing also? I don't need to do that and get offended for no reason.
That there are plenty of people prepared to add their own claims of moral deficiency to this thread makes it seem like there is certainly an atmosphere where a statement like that can be interpreted in that manner.
If you have a discount on socks for your customers, you say "we've got a discount on socks". If your customers don't have to wade through AI slop, you say "we don't do AI (so you don't have to wade through slop)".
This doesn’t make sense, because they are putting their money where their mouth is. They could instead grift, generate much more content and click bait, raise good money with “currentafair agents” or something, all with AI!
> simply enforcing that rule without advertising
From dusk till dawn we are drowning in AI news and advertisements praising AI as if it’s the second coming of Jesus. Why does it bother if someone doesn’t want to join the bandwagon? Why shouldn’t they be transparent about their stance?