Sentient Loom

Nobody’s complaining about the simple.wikipedia part, but you already know that.

They’re not missing that part. Nobody’s “raging” against simple.wikipedia

On something like wikipedia I only want words that are written by humans, vouched for by individuals who are accountable for what they write.

If I want AI generated content I’ll go to an AI site.

Humans are good at writing. We literally invented it and we’re experts. I’ll stop using wikipedia if they turn into a slop heap.

No matter the context.

But sometimes because of the context, as in this case, where we want info vouched for by actual humans who did research and who can be held accountable, instead of more slop.

Yeah, at that point why bother with wikipedia anyway? If we’re just using AI then we’re just using AI (but I don’t want to just use AI ffs)

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I’d rather be waterboarded

That’s not as clever as you think it is.

You can also not use Google. I use duckduckgo and they let you turn off AI overview.

violence as a means to an end, pragmatically, has enormous costs,

The people I’m talking about (the worst ones) don’t even have an “end.” No plan at all. The violence is the end. It’s pure stupidity. I see it as the lust for violence, coming up with some politics to justify itself.

I honestly think self-righteousness pushes people away. It’s why I can barely stand bluesky. During the big exodus from reddit, all these so-called far-lefties (who I think were just reddit goons doing infiltration) were all screaming for everybody to defederate. Even now, I keep arguing against idiots posting “kill a cop” or “kill fascists” memes, like this is literally an “advocate violence” platform. I don’t expect to pull big numbers with that kind of shit.

Social media is kinda washed up. A lot of people are on substack, too. The internet as a place is just less popular, I think. We’re all getting sick of it.

used to train both commercial

commercial training is, in this case, stealing people’s work for commercial gain

and open source language models

so, uh, let us train open-source models on open-source text. There’s so much of it that there’s no need to steal.

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I’m not sure why you added a question mark at the end of your statement.

How exactly does this benefit “us” ?