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.
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