“Can I be held responsible for the actions which this technology empowers? Would I feel better if I couldn’t?”
A good initial list of questions to hone in on the moral dimensions of the technologies we are creating.
Month: December 2022
Even a cursory dip into the subreddits and other social media posts, whitepapers, and other documentation and community discussions surrounding generative AI, makes it hard to miss the spite and negativity directed at human creativity. They are almost necessary preconditions to be part of the development community. Ironically, of course, the developers celebrate their own creativity in building these software tools, despite the fact that they implicitly rebuke the work and lives of everyone who creates or thinks meaning is confined to living things.
That perspective which I’ve also noticed in the people pushing this stuff is incredibly damning. They hover up the sum creative works of humanity and privatize it into shitty models.
https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/chatgpt-should-not-exist-aab0867abace
It always struck me as absurd that degrowth “couldn’t work”. At this point, it’s probably the only thing that can work.
Looks like we can bootstrap a web app using pretty much only Postgres for the data layer and kick out the redis cluster, the celery process and the ElasticSearch server.
That makes an early stage project incredibly lean and with some care and feeding this setup will likely go very far before it needs to be overhauled.