Does lithium mining inherently push GHG into the atmosphere? I’m honestly asking because I don’t know much about the process other than it requires significant amounts of processing to extract lithium from its surrounding deposits. But if the source of emissions for lithium mining are solely from powering the equipment, it is not really a climate change issue (though even localized environmental damage is bad and needs to be addressed, of course).
I wouldn’t even call it algorithm-driven myopia but rather myopically-designed algorithmic idiocy. It isn’t wildly challenging to design a filter to capture semantic context before recommending action on a piece of text, even if the underlying reasoning is wildly petty ratfuckery. It isn’t just the petty meandering cruelty with these dumb pieces of shit, though that’s certainly enough to merit outrage. It’s the combination with historic incompetence that just exponentially amplifies that outrage. Here’s to a mario party to roll in 2026.
Even in your latter paragraph, it wouldn’t be an infringement. Assuming the art was lawfully accessed in the first place, like by clicking a link to a publicly shared portfolio, no copy is being encoded into the model. There is currently no intellectual property right invoked merely by training a model-- if people want there to be, and it isn’t an unreasonable thing to want (though I don’t agree it’s good policy), then a new type of intellectual property right will need to be created.
What’s actually baffling to me is that these pieces presumably are all effectively public domain as they’re authored by AI. And they’re clearly digital in nature, so wtf are people actually buying?
Not everything is “pretend” but what you have identified is that all societal rules are participatory algorithms, and that includes money and laws. Money, or really wealth and value, are effectively resource allocation and prioritization algorithms. It’s why the very idea of individuals, or even organizational entities largely decouple from societal benefit, having comparable allocative power to actual societal management structures is batshit absurd.
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