Post #3732965
2026-06-20 22:40 UTC
@matt@toot.cafe one way to think about this is that LLMs are a bad tool that solves problems thousands of times more inefficiently than other mechanisms. It has the appearance of efficiency for two reasons: theft and subsidy. If LLM vendors succeed, the training data will become hopelessly polluted and the theft will no longer be tenable; frontier model vendors will need to pay people to produce untainted data. The subsidies will also run out (and they are already), once the VC musical chairs stops.
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-06-20 22:40
@matt@toot.cafe the way that public LLM services are structured, there is a relatively brief moment (~6 years at the outside i would say) where a marginalized community like the blind community can use this resource boondoggle as a way to steal from broader society. And there’s a zero-sum aspect to this; if it’s not the screenreaders stealing, it’s gonna be bitcoin dropshipping startup bros. So I have a certain level of sympathy for the transitive theft happening here; there’s a robin-hood like story