Damien Walter equates Enclosure, the historic forced appropriation by the wealthy and powerful of traditional rights of access and usage of common lands to the current appropriation by the capitalist tech giants of the rights of access and usage of global knowledge through the proferation of LLMs and associated infrastructure. Her renames AI as 'Collective Intelligence' to emphasise that the product being marketed to us is our own collective knowledge base and that of our predecessors, processed and filtered as if it were industrialised food production.

ChatGPT is People echoes Charlton Heston's anguished cry at the end of the 1973 dystopian epic Soylent Green.

I found it a powerful statement.

There's no way I'm eating chat bots ...

But may chatbots will eat you?

I am not quite sure whether LLMs are really collective intelligence as such. They process collective intelligence into something artificial.

"It's not a god, it's a zip file." Amusing way to put it. Zip file + stochastic parrot + glorified autocomplete.

And something about humanity's cognitive labours fed back to us for $20/month.

46 minutes ago, TheVat said:

"It's not a god, it's a zip file." Amusing way to put it. Zip file + stochastic parrot + glorified autocomplete.

And something about humanity's cognitive labours fed back to us for $20/month.

Reminds me of the 70's when someone said a computer is a glorified calculator. AI to me is a glorified search engine.