@dsalo oh, I absolutely won’t argue with doing that. They’re just as bad as cr*pto bros. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Venn diagram of the two groups is just a single circle.
@waynedixon I lost my last shred of curiosity when the LAION bros got confronted with the existence of extremely private medical images in their training set and were just like "welp."
@$$holes. Karma got 'em (CSAM was found not long after; the training set and model then abruptly disappeared) but ffs.
@dsalo wow, I hadn’t known about that, but at the same time I haven’t been paying attention to what has been happening, except to know that the source of training data is suspect.
@edsu I may be wrong about this, but I remember seeing rather fewer librarians climbing onto the blockchain/cryptocurr/NFT train, and of those, several of them were already known to me as total hucksters.
Librarianship just seems to be a lot more susceptible to AI gullibility? I wish I knew why.
@dsalo@edsu I don't reallly know which side of this particular fence I fall on for you folks, but I will say that back of the envelope observation from librarians seems to be about.... 70% vehement disgust and distrust of AI and maybe 10% or so true-believer types.
of that 10%, it does seem like end-career, "Thought Leader" types might be overrepresented. :D
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