The current level of academic discourse on LLM's
Anyway I brought this up at the LLM discussion group at an academic conference this week:
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
(tl;dr—Kenyan workers are being paid exploitative-level wages to manually filter out the worst stuff from the internet and this is necessary for how LLM's work)
And in that hour, only one person even addressed the issue, and their take was ~ "colonial exploitation is good, actually" and everyone just sorta nodded their heads
The current level of academic discourse on LLM's
I also brought up the ethical issue of plagiarism and the consent of the original writers whose work has been scraped
This was dismissed by a bro who conflated the moral and the legal by saying that it's probably not illegal under copyright law and missed the point entirely
The current level of academic discourse on LLM's
@researchfairy that's because techbros have no morals
