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Should we also be concerned that other governments use slave labor (among other human rights violations) and will use that to get ahead?

• logicchains 2y ago
  It's hysterical to compare training an ML model with slave labour. It's perfectly fine and accepted for a human to read and learn from content online without paying anything to the author when that content has been made available online for free, it's absurd to assert that it somehow becomes a human rights violation when the learning is done by a non-biological brain instead.
  • Kbelicius 2y ago
    > It's hysterical to compare training an ML model with slave labour. Nobody did that. > It's perfectly fine and accepted for a human to read and learn from content online without paying anything to the author when that content has been made available online for free, it's absurd to assert that it somehow becomes a human rights violation when the learning is done by a non-biological brain instead. It makes sense. There is always scale to consider in these things.
    • totallykvothe 2y ago
      worble literally did make that comparison. It is possible for comparisons to be made using other rhetorical devices than just saying "I am comparing a to b".
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      • Terr_ 2y ago
        > worble literally did make that comparison No, their mention of "slave labor" is not a comparison to how LLMs work, nor an assertion of moral equivalence. Instead it is just one example to demonstrate that chasing economic/geopolitical competitiveness is not a carte blanche to adopt practices that might be immoral or unjust.
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