People think I'm kidding when I say there is a fascist agenda behind the promotion of AI. These devices are designed to kill literacy. We grew up in one of those rare periods of history where most people could read, and those who can read are harder to control.
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I wrote a blog post about a number of problematic examples of LLM AI. One that I had not expected was the creeping right-wing bias in the training material, for reasons ranging from font quality to paper quality and scan quality: www.someweekendreading.blog/llm-ai-still...
If people raised in red states could read this, they'd be very upset with you.
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