LLMs don’t respect anything either
LLMs don’t respect anything either
Posted May 14, 2026 0:18 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)In reply to: Respect? by karath
Parent article: killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation
“whenever the legal status of LLM training data is brought up I can't help but think of Aaron Swartz and how he was treated like he did the heist of the decade for trying to release some academic papers to the public”
-- https://fedi.catto.garden/objects/4f4cb118-6231-485c-9d2d...
“I'm genuinely astonished how many defenses of LLM contributions are a flat "you can't enforce this and you can't actually stop us". Just completely steamrolling past consent and comfort and forcing themselves on people who don't want them. Feels like some serious masks-off kind of shit.”
-- https://social.treehouse.systems/@TheEntity/1164994313517...
***It’s stolen, Jim.***
That is, if the racism, land grabs, polluted water, higher power bills, creating an addicted population that can't think, pollution from building new power plants and data centres, water grabs (“Project Excalibur” et al.), exploitation of humans in the global south, etc. don’t already get to you.
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