Article “Large Language Muddle. It ’s OK to be a Luddite!” in n+1 Magazine
Mekeor Melire <[email protected]>
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I stumbled upon an article titled “Large Language Muddle”, subtitled “It’s OK to be a Luddite!”, in the magazin named “n+1” published in Brooklyn, New York, USA, with issue numbered 51, titled “Force Majeure”, available online at: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/ It touches on so many things! - LLM impact on writers, authors - LLM impact on teaching at universities - We need to teach people media literacy: how to avoid becoming stupid because you ask ChatGPT everything. - Praise human intelligence not only as more fault-prone, but also truely positively as creative etc. - Normatively call out LLM usage as bad for humanity: bad for climate, for wealth inequality etc. - and much more! Even though it mentions Karl Marx and Das Kapital, I wish the article dived more into how recent developments in AI/LLM show that we as society/societies must gain democratic control over the economy, so that we can decide whether we as a society want an AI that steels creative work of others and rephrases it, while consuming gigantic amounts of energy, making the ultra-rich billionaires richer, and information easily fakable and thus untrustable. Communism/socialism at its heart is about abolishing the distinction between economy and politics through the means of councils where people, due to imperative mandate, decide bottom-up about social life, including the production sphere.