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Rick Gulatieri on Gen AI

2025-04-06 19:01:52.177128+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I've been further exploring LLM stuff for work, using our tools to do some Retrieval-Augmented Generation, because "AI" integration seems to be a necessity for funding these days, but because of that I'm thinking a lot about bullshit generation machines, and where the bounds of fair use of public data vs building Markov chains to regurgitate the work of others lies.

In this case it's a little easier, because rather than just strip mining the open web, the actions have clearly been from pirating the works of authors who are charging for their work. And I really hope The Author's Guild manages to tear a large hole through OpenAI, Meta, and Google.

Rick Gualtieri ‪@rickgualtieri.bsky.social‬

Until the Gen AI companies either compensate content owners or purge their datasets and adopt an opt-in model, commercial Gen AI is a HARD NO for me.

That's it. There is no conversation until that happens. It's built off stolen goods (some of them my own), and I will not support that.

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