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  • It’s not anthropomorphizing, its how new terms are created.

    Pretty much every new term ever draws on already existing terms.

    A car is called car, because that term was first used for streetcars before that, and for passenger train cars before that, and before that it was used for cargo train cars and before that it was used for a charriot and originally it was used for a two-wheeled Celtic war chariot. Not a lot of modern cars have two wheels and a horse.

    A plane is called a plane, because it’s short for airplane, which derives from aeroplane, which means the wing of an airplane and that term first denoted the shell casings of a beetle’s wings. And not a lot of modern planes are actually of beetle wing shell casings.

    You can do the same for almost all modern terms. Every term derives from a term that denotes something similar, often in another domain.

    Same with AI hallucinations. Nobody with half an education would think that the cause, effect and expression of AI hallucinations is the same as for humans. OpenAI doesn’t feed ChatGTP hallucinogenics. It’s just a technical term that means something vaguely related to what the term originally meant for humans, same as “plane” and “beetle wing shell casing”.





  • You did not read your source. Some quotes you apparently missed:

    Scraping to violate the public’s privacy is bad, actually.

    Scraping to alienate creative workers’ labor is bad, actually.

    Please read your source before posting it and claiming it says something it doesn’t actually say.

    Now why does Doctrow distinguish between good scraping and bad scraping, and even between good LLM training and bad LLM training in his post?

    Because the good applications are actually covered by fair use while the bad parts aren’t.

    Because fair use isn’t actually about what is done (scraping, LLM training, …) but about who does it (researchers, non-profit vs. companies, for-profit) and for what purpose (research, critique, teaching, news reporting vs. making a profit by putting original copyright owners out of work).

    That’s the whole point of fair use. It’s even in the name. It’s about the use, and the use needs to be fair. It’s not called “Allowed techniques, don’t care if it’s fair”.





  • Zionism is the one thing where anti-semites and Jews (at least zionist Jews) agree.

    Zionist Jews want it because it gives them their own country where they are not persecuted.

    Anti-semites want it, because it means that the Jews are not in their country.

    That’s why even the literal Nazis supported zionism. Every Jew in Israel was one less Jew in Germany.

    You get the same thing still today with the most right-wing politicians supporting Zionism/Israel. On the one hand because it’s a way to keep Jews far away and on the other hand because it can be used as a “I’m supporting Israel, so surely I can’t be a Nazi. Anyway, let’s go shoot some Muslims.”-kind of excuse.