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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

Kevin Kelly is a thoughtful commentator on technology. This piece gives some good intuition on what a large language model actually *is* and draws useful analogies to libraries and librarians.

I like his enthusiasm for open-source and open-weight models for the public good. I dislike how some people use models today, but I buy Kelly's argument that this new ability of ours is surprising and useful. As usual, tools and their uses are not the same thing.

https://kk.org/thetechnium/arguments-in-favor-of-ai-fair-use/