Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles

i understand and agree with this in the society we live in.

but, not to be a contrarian, i think if we didn’t live in such a commoditized society the practice of training LLMs on large swaths of data wouldn’t be viewed so negatively. it only seems wrong to “steal” people’s work because they have to make a living on the idiotic notion of “owning” their art, ideas, and research. if we did away with this, then we could grow up and share everything

i’m not religious. but in many faiths, there is a story analogous to the abrahamic story of the tower of babel. i won’t recount it here, but i will say, classical interpretation is that god strikes man down, confusing our languages, as a direct result of his pride or hubris for daring to attempt to approach the divine. if you ask me, it seems like this interpretation is copium. why would we need to be delimited if it wasn’t the case that when we work in unity as a monad, humanity approaches the omnipotent power of the heavens? seems to me it’s almost like the division of man was done in these stories out of a fear over what we could do if only we all worked together.

now, fairy tales aren’t real. but we tell stories to learn lessons about the world. there is significance that out of the infinite stories that could be, we chose to pass this one down