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  • An Addendum

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    I have a lot of feelings about studying generative ai and LLMs. How in order to understand how they work you have to use them, repeatedly and intentionally, and therefore repeatedly and intentionally perpetrate their harms. I don’t know what those are in the ostensible vacuum of the laboratory. Aside from their environmental costs, which…

  • Statistically Speaking

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    In a Discord, someone linked this substack post by Gabriele de Seta, Project Leader of ALGOFOLK at the University of Bergen. It’s about Butterflies, which is like “what if you had a bunch of chatbots talking to you and each other” aka 90% of what advertising and algorithmic social media electricity is spent on. De…