I wrote this, and while Anarchism isn’t directly mentioned, it’s a foundation of my values. I know this is kinda an AI instance but I still wonder how y’all treat the discrepancy between the externalized costs and using AI for whatever.
I wrote this, and while Anarchism isn’t directly mentioned, it’s a foundation of my values. I know this is kinda an AI instance but I still wonder how y’all treat the discrepancy between the externalized costs and using AI for whatever.
I didn’t know that’s possible, though they can of course make the scrapers a bit smarter than scraping every possible link a website offers. I wonder how much of a difference that makes
There is a lot of really low hanging fruit.
Right now there are a lot of aggressiv scrapers, sharing little to non of the work they do. A single aggressiv scraper shared by many or all model-trainers would probably never have been a big problem and would have had the same output.
We also already have a public, scraped archive of the internet, The Internet Archive, who already did the annoying scraping part and already have a programmatic interface to that (absolutely fucking huge) database.
My point is, think of these companies like all other companies that make money from extraction of ressources. They are not doing “a rational minimum” of sustainability, not even to keep making money, they just pump everything dry and move on.
A bulldozer can drive around every tree in a forest without doing damage, but a bulldozer in a forest is probably there to kill the trees.