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My feeling is we have to bring the level of truth down from the institution level to the story level.

As with the digital and mobile revolutions, pulling up the drawbridge or trying to hold back the tide is not going to be a strategy for success.

Bespoke, secretive deals with the largest or most influential news outlets are not a replacement for public policy.

Regular people aren’t allowed to make copies of a recent best-seller and resell it with a different cover, nor can a studio stream a competitor’s series just because it’s on the Internet and it’s possible to copy it. They might be able to license that material, if the owner allows it, and they can certainly buy copies, but even buying a copy doesn’t give the purchaser the right to reproduce and redistribute such works.

While they negotiate, another version of the internet is already under construction. It’s a place where visiting websites is a thing of the past, and browsers and AI companies team up to give people everything the broader internet used to without ever having to leave their walled gardens.

An ever-deteriorating ouroboros of ‘thought leadership’ wank and AI word vomit.

There is a yawning gap between "AI tools can be handy for some things" and the kinds of stories AI companies are telling (and the media is uncritically reprinting). And when it comes to the massively harmful ways in which large language models (LLMs) are being developed and trained, the feeble argument that "well, they can sometimes be handy..." doesn't offer much of a justification.