Theme for this week/year/decade
> I have heard the phrase “I’m legally allowed to do so, so I will” from AI proponents a million times. The utter lack of respect, the contempt towards anyone not in their camp is insurmountable. Not even an opt out, just straight up ignoring the wishes of their sources.
On FLOSS and training LLMs - Chronicae Novis Rebus
 Again, this is not limited to code. That same contempt, that same lack of respect, that same looting of the commons is happening with media and writing as well.
> This is respecting the licenses of the training materials. This is the absolute minimum, mind you. This is not everything they have to do, this is the first step only. There’s many more. And this is something all models would be required to do. This is not an “Ethical-only” requirement. This is the bare minimum.
So you want to build an ethical AI... - Chronicae Novis Rebus
 This applies to non-code training data as well. Step 1 and all models are already failing
“If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers? – Pivot to AI”
Pivot to AI
If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?
AI coding bros right now are super-impressed with the latest version of Claude Code. This is a game changer! It’s is the future! You can’t deny...
Just so you all know: any feed whose first post today is a glorifying eulogy of a cartoonist who tanked his career by being a vile bigot will be unsubscribed immediately.
If we’re truly unlucky, the Greenland crisis will be “resolved” with a Sudetenland-style concession, with at least one of the participants making an unironic and oblivious “peace in our time” kind of statement
This kind of photo tickles my brain. #photos #iceland image
“Unemployed Negativity: Automatic Against the People: Reading, Writing, and AI”
Automatic Against the People: Reading, Writing, and AI
 > Workers are proletarianized when the skill and knowledge, the know-how, that was part of the working process becomes externalized in the machine.
“Artificial intentionality - by Rob Horning - Internal exile”
Artificial intentionality
As the hype for generative models has been building, so has the colloquial corrective.
 > No subjective, embodied thought went into it, but someone’s actual life will be wasted in dealing with it, even as its production has wasted the planet’s life-sustaining resources. It kills life twice over.
"Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling" 📄.pdf (PDF) > workers in the top quintile of the ability distribution are hired 19% less often, workers in the bottom quintile are hired 14% more often.