Koen Hufkens, PhD
Finished the "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation " by @pluralistic. Necessary reading in this day and age, for a few reasons:
1. It introduces the concept of universal computing devices really well
2. and in this context how (internet) technology underpins societal and justice movements, stifled by software copyright "wrappers"
In the context of the former it also shows were we are headed IMO.
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#privacy #copyright #software #opensource #enshitification #technology
Koen Hufkens, PhD
When turning the tables, what will interoperability look like in this new LLM software age. If it is at all possible.
Will people be prosecuted for using LLMs "the wrong way", asking "bad" questions? Is prompt hacking, or prompt injections, really a hack and reason for criminal charges?
What is considered a copyright infringement when this meta-software is built largely without consent?
It leaves me with the feeling that LLMs are the new walled gardens and an interoperability disaster.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD
It is Daniel Davies who popularized the idea that these LLMs are an excellent "accountability sink" (@pluralistic put it on my radar). Plausible deniability. Shroedinger's search engine, where things are correct and hallucinations at the same time. Computer said no.
Where (poor) AI models were previously limited to certain industries, they are now injected in every application possible (i.e. blowing up that potential legal surface).
Software ate the world once, LLMs will do it once more.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD
When I look at the large language models (LLM) I see meta-software. Software which isn't. It is multi-modal, yet disembodied. It is search, but not search.
Where this tech exposes a huge attack surface security wise, it opens up an equally large legal attack surface.
Currently the focus has been on copyright infringements by LLM, but by and large the weight of the industry will judge in their favour and content will be licensed.
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Koen Hufkens, PhD
@hye @pluralistic It is the dog ate my homework excuse for software, e.g. the whole itch.io snafu. These things rarely end in favour of those most impacted. How do you file a CVE for an inherent stochastic system?
SaftyKuma
@koen_hufkens @hye @pluralistic
I almost think that THIS is the biggest draw to LLMs for the corpo types. They can instruct their software to do shitty things, but then wave their hands and blame "an AI we can't possibly control" when they are called out.
Hao Ye
@koen_hufkens @pluralistic Hmm, when I think about it that way, chatgpt is a lot cheaper as an accountability sink than Bain / McKinsey / et al.!
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