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Alex Schroeder
@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

If you like large language models, know that they need regular training and the people training them are ruining the web for everybody. You are part of this, as a consumer.

Most sites don’t have the defences required, or require the execution of expensive JavaScript for the CO₂ god, or require placing all your visitor’s browsing data into the hands of another company, most likely CloudFlare, in the USA. If you object to any of that, you must do your duty and reject the use of LLMs as well. You can’t eat your cake and claim to object to the rest. It would be a most incongruent position to take.

And since this kind of shit often happens while I’m on holidays, the LLM friends reading this are responsible, in a very small way, for pissing on me during my holidays. And I resent it.

I resent it very much.

#ButlerianJihad

Load going up to 80, again. And back down, again.
Load going up to 80, again. And back down, again.
Load going up to 80, again. And back down, again.
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Alex Schroeder
@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Waking up in a hotel bed, opening the balcony doors, hearing the birds sing, switching on the phone and realising that load is over 100 and nothing works, switching off Emacs Wiki and Community Wiki, the favourite targets of the AI scrapers and thinking of the people who like to use large language models. It’s the same problem as always: drive a car, see the CO₂ in the world go up, “but I need it!” – yeah, but we need an earth that supports human life too, idiots. Humans, where comfort is separated from consequences by time and space like to choose comfort. In this case, the AI comfort leads to the shut down of the open web, the centralisation of what remains, the installation of barriers, and ever and always: more control for fewer people. But of course, the consequences are separated by time and space from the comforts of AI users.

Imagine a goddess of destruction with a grim smile and a thousand hands and each one of them is giving you a middle finger.

Load average: 142.25

I switched off some sites.

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