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  • I feel like you missed all the nuance, because my top notch analogies seem to be “crashing out”, so let me break it down for you:

    Nutella, exactly like it is now

    Ok so this is the delicious base, created by humans for humans. Artisanal, words, sounds and images that you can consume every day.

    except there are tiny bits of shit mixed in (percieveable to the eye, nose and tongue)

    This is the AI part where it has mashed a bunch if existing stuff together based only on patterns and made something music-ish, with whatever it could scrape from wherever.

    and we also shoot 10 orangutans every time you buy a jar

    This is the part where you’re right about stealing shit being totally fine, like Nestlé selling peoples drinking water (that I can only assume you are all for). Commerical LLMs both take people’s private resources and also damage the resources of the rest of the planet, whatever you use them for. So maybe I should have said 100 orangutans to be more accurate.

    But this time “we are providing jobs to prop up the economy”,

    This is a little joke I threw in about capitalism where big companies always say this to make any shitty thing they do seem worthwhile.

    so if you let our company fail the stock market tanks and we cause the next great depression.

    This is an evidence based assertion based on previous examples of forced bailouts for shitty businesses because they were propping up whole economies with their inflated values. Which can be directly compared to the current state of the AI bubble.

    People could only be happy about that product, otherwise they must be trolls.

    This is a little commentary on you and your “different opinions”. You can’t be ok with AI while recognising the impact. It’s not actually like Nutella, which is a calorie dense and cheap food which people ignore the environmental impact of because it’s a cheap and delicious product and they need to eat to live. Yeah you probably need it specifically but I can forgive people buying cheap food. Generative AI is not a necessity. It’s a luxury product that provides literally nothing to keep anyone alive or advance anything of value.

    And comparing piracy to LLM training is also a weak take. You can see with Disney strong arming companies that this is doing nothing to impact copyright law and you, as a private citizen, will still be arrested if you download books and try to sell them on as a new product. All it does is shift all of the wealth from individual creators to large corporations.

    But you already know all this and I don’t need to keep doubling down. I forgot.