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One of the reasons I can't stand LLMs is because I believe that when we write we are telling a truth about ourselves.
To be clear I don't believe horror writers wish that was the world they were in, or they were monsters. It's more an acknowledgement of the darkness in us.
Writers share their voice and a truth about themselves and how they see the world.
Be it fact or fiction.
When you use an LLM, you're speaking with other stolen voices all mashed up. Not your voice.
@onepict
In my home timeline the very next toot after yours is: https://mstdn.calut.fr/@djelouze/116974355268224269
And also yesterday with a friend we talked about a PhD presenting research in psychology about decolonization approach on testimony on Algerian War & French State horror. And all interviews and all proto reviews were made using LLM / AI.
"Double peine" we use to say in French.
@XavCC Interesting I did want to mention colonisation in relation to LLMs as well.
Colonial empires tend to swallow up culture and repurpose it to serve their ends, which I see as another characteristic of LLMs.
Although folks like @timnitGebru are definitely the folks way more qualified having done the research.
@onepict
I very trying to bring this issue from an anthropology lenses into NGOs and very often the reaction is like "we don't do philosophy" in our report. Leftist NGOs BTW.
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I might be a bad writer and also bad analyst but, I think, it tells us something close and not similar to "we are politically polite / sensible / balanced ".
I mean, it's not just philosophy, but it could be. It's anthropology and it's definetly not a matter of "category". And it's about fact and clues. Something distorted or destroyed by AI / LLM and previously by other Carbon actors.
So what, in your view, is the point of categorising a fact established by scientific consensus differently or in a different context?
I don’t want to jump to conclusions, and I try not to judge (it is through judgement that we categorise things). I’m trying to understand.
Very often, the topic of AI/LLMs triggers strong emotional reactions, which are often fundamentally contradictory.
In some ways, this resembles what I’m experiencing and observing with regard to the issue of pesticides or plastics.
https://we.riseup.net/assets/857041/Pollution%20Is%20Colonialism%20
Cc @timnitGebru
@XavCC I think having a wider spread of education including the Humanities is important.
Yes we can specialise, but having different lenses to look at our societies and why they are the way they are is important.
You can't really make an argument for change if you just assume you know how other societies made their choices.
For example during our conversation about FOSS for GIS, I did find your interest in community communication in Cajun groups interesting.
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