• Article =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLarge?= Language Muddle. =?utf-8?Q?It?= =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99s?= OK to be a =?utf-8?Q?Luddite!=E2=80=9D?= in n+1 Magazine

    From Mekeor Melire@mekeor@posteo.de to comp.ai on Mon Oct 6 20:09:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai

    I stumbled upon an article titled rCLLarge Language MuddlerCY,
    subtitled rCLItrCOs OK to be a Luddite!rCY, in the magazin named rCLn+1rCY published in Brooklyn, New York, USA, with issue numbered 51,
    titled rCLForce MajeurerCY, 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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