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Snowden St.
@snowden.st

(this is a loose analogy) if Data is the New Oil, I think LLMs might be something like a plastic

Alistair Davidson@moh-kohn.eurosky.social

Through that lens, AI almost feels inevitable. Capitalists concentrated so much data that it began to speak. People then took that and attempted to swarm-clone expensive SaaS products like Adobe Suite (n.b. they are yet to succeed at that).

Snowden St.
@snowden.st

loosely, it would also mean “is useful, is also a pollutant, and environmentally questionable, mostly benefits a lot of private production, but also probably not eradicable”.

John
@lexaproluthor.bsky.social

Where this analogy falls apart somewhat is the doom loop problem. Plastics are a nasty pollutant, but you don't have to worry about them so contaminating oil formations as to compromise production.

Snowden St.
@snowden.st

very much so! and yeah, the analogy is more about “form”, I think, because “carbon forms from the earth” do not arise from complex systems that can compare to human cognition, like words, nor as you say is the supply chain as neat.

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