this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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It steals from the copyright holders in order to make corporate AI money without giving back to the creators.
It uses insane amounts of water and energy to function, with demand not being throttled by these companies.
It gives misleading, misquoted, misinformed, and sometimes just flat out wrong information, but abuses its very confidence-inspiring language skills to pass it off as the correct answer. You HAVE to double check all its work.
And if you think about it, it doesn't actually want to lick a lollipop, even if it says it does. Its not sentient. I repeat, its not alive. The current design is a tool at best.
Thank you, for the sake of completeness, I'd add something like this: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
This is a liberal criticism, not a leftist one. Leftists do not believe in private property, let alone expanding private property to include ideas as "intellectual property"
A leftist framing of this critique is that one of the primary objectives of LLMs is to bring publicly accessible information, i.e. the commons, into the realm of private property, where one must exchange one's personal data (read: power) to access what already exists in the commons.
Namely, the scraping required for LLM training can be considered exploitation of workers for profit. Workers or volunteers created, wrote, organized, or edited the content. Content that is now used to generate a profit, profit that the workers never see a penny of. This content is repackaged and sold back to the workers.
Shit, my bad. I read it as left-leaning viewpoints, not leftist viewpoints.
You read correctly. Just wanted to clarify for posterity. :)