In big news overnight, #Anthropic have made a major change to their user data retention and training policy - giving customers until September 28th to opt out, or have their chats, code sessions and other artefacts used for training for up to five years.

This is a major departure from their previous privacy-first stance.

But what's really behind this change? As Connie Loizos points out in this @Techcrunch article, it's all about the #data.

As I've spoken about recently, we've passed #PeakToken - the point in history where we have the maximum amount of authentic, human-generated data available. Now, the internet is polluted with synthetically-generated #AIslop. If you're an #AI company scraping the web for new data to train on, that's bad news, because you also scoop up the AI slop. If models are trained on AI slop, they're likely to encounter #ModelCollapse - like a bad photocopy.

Anthropic's play here is all about the #TokenCrisis - the voracious appetite for new, authentic, human-generated data to train on - part of a broader phenomenon I've termed the #TokenWars.

As new data becomes scarcer and more valuable, it will be more sought after and contested. We're still in the early days of the #TokenWars, and we should expect to see more moves like this to secure more data for AI training.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/anthropic-users-face-a-new-choice-opt-out-or-share-your-data-for-ai-training/

@KathyReid I dare to predict that this ultra-wasteful industry will be remembered as a sophomoric project.

There is less understanding now of the nature of human reasoning than what scholars had before GPT training.

People who believed that intelligence is in form, the normal, that semantics can be turned into syntax, a marginal, were the derided few Carnap hold-outs. It's still not possible, it still leads to Orwellian absurdity and decay.

Relax and smile.

#aislop #philosophy
@Techcrunch

After centuries of total dominance of academic spaces and government spaces, liberalism isn't aware that it lost touch with the public.

In an era of anti-reason running amok, the pollyanish proceduralism of John Rawls must be put down. It cannot make the case to people who don't believe in reason.

Liberalism must argue for itself rather than be a referee: https://newrepublic.com/article/199273/john-rawls-liberals-philosopher-bus-neutrality

#philosophy #liberalism

After centuries of total dominance of academic spaces and government spaces, liberalism isn't aware that it lost touch with the public.

In an era of anti-reason running amok, the pollyanish proceduralism of John Rawls must be put down. It cannot make the case to people who don't believe in reason.

Liberalism must argue for itself rather than be a referee: https://newrepublic.com/article/199273/john-rawls-liberals-philosopher-bus-neutrality

#philosophy #liberalism

I don't think I've done an #introduction before despite having been here for a few years now.

My name is Nagaram or Nags. I am kinda 30. #tech nerd #history nerd #philosophy nerd and I will talk ad nauseum about #religion and my weird #atheist stances. Such as thinking #magick and the #occult is cool!

I work #IT so I mostly talk about that and my #homelab like my blog thinkstoomuch.net

I'm also an annoying leftist! I will post about my #gun ownership and #firearms training with anyone who's interested.

DMs open. Email is open too if you wanna chat, vent, or call me names. All valid!

alcinnz
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The #Internet is Dying: #AI, Bots, and The End of #Human Content - by Vanessa Wingårdh

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg)

This should be common knowledge by now, but there is still a small chance that it's not, so let's make sure it definitely will be.

#Capitalism#Advertisment#Ads#Society#GenAI#GenerativeAI#Philosophy

The #Internet is Dying: #AI, Bots, and The End of #Human Content - by Vanessa Wingårdh

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg)

This should be common knowledge by now, but there is still a small chance that it's not, so let's make sure it definitely will be.

#Capitalism#Advertisment#Ads#Society#GenAI#GenerativeAI#Philosophy

alcinnz
alcinnz boosted

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This is an example for another latent dysfunction:

Fewer (public) questions get asked on the internet and so knowledge is not spread, but contained, making it more individualized.

This also creates an even stronger bias towards older content, so people might take the shortcut and use a more established technology, instead of looking into new, less explored, but more innovative solutions.

#LatentFunctions #LLMs#Innovation#Society#Philosophy

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This is an example for another latent dysfunction:

Fewer (public) questions get asked on the internet and so knowledge is not spread, but contained, making it more individualized.

This also creates an even stronger bias towards older content, so people might take the shortcut and use a more established technology, instead of looking into new, less explored, but more innovative solutions.

#LatentFunctions #LLMs#Innovation#Society#Philosophy

Joachim
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"The idea of frictionlessness has very narcissistic ... Because being actually touched, being inconvenienced, being emotionally moved, having your mind and perception changed means acknowledging your fellow human beings around you, realizing their differences to you and to recognize their value."

Bleak but true observations by @tante

https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/

#friction#AI #philosophy