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The purpose of disclosure is to allow people to make their own decisions about how trustworthy I am as a source of information. If I started rejecting access t
by simonw 11mo ago
The purpose of disclosure is to allow people to make their own decisions about how trustworthy I am as a source of information.
If I started rejecting access to early models over a desire to avoid conflicts of interest my coverage would be less useful to people. I think most of my regular readers understand that.
I was responsible for one of the first widely read reports on the ethics of model training back in 2022 when I collaborated with Andy Baio to cover Stable Diffusion's unlicensed training data: https://waxy.org/2022/08/exploring-12-million-of-the-images-used-to-train-stable-diffusions-image-generator/ https://waxy.org/2022/08/exploring-12-million-of-the-images-...
Calling me "their most enthusiastic shill" is not justified. Have you seen what's out there on LinkedIn/Twitter etc?
The reason I show up on Hacker News so often is that I'm clearly not their most enthusiastic shill.
- dymk 11mo agoThis is a disappointing thread to find - HN is usually a little more thoughtful than throwing around insults like "insufferable AI cheerleader". If I can provide a different perspective, I find your writing on LLMs to be useful. I've referenced your writing to coworkers in an effort to be a little more rigorous when it comes to how we use these new (often unintuitive) tools. I think the level of disclosure you do is fine. Certainly a better effort at transparency than what most writers are willing to do.
- bsndjdkd 11mo agoIt's called having standards. If I'm reading propaganda I'd at least like something in return. This whole I'm so positive haha I just wanna help humanity might fly on likedin but the whole point of this place is to have interesting information. BTW why was this thread on the front page with 1 upvote? I'm sure there's no funny business going on here lol. >inb4 flagged