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I have a strong personal hatred dislike for
“articifical”
“intelligence”,
especially large language models. In a sentence, I think the simplest
way of justifying this is that their output is utterly mediocre as
compared the amount of input resources they require - both data and
energy. The balance just doesn’t add up. And to boot, we already
have a tool which can run on minimal energy and data, and whose
output has been proven to change the world countless times - the human
brain.
Please know that I am personally loathed to anybody using this site or the data thereon for model training, and I would consider anybody doing so after reading this passage to be extremely disrespectful. Explicitly, you may not use this site or the data thereon for any purpose involving model training or testing.
However, if you are a human who wishes to quote or re-use part of this site for whatever activity (with proper attribution of course!), then you have my blessing and I’d love it if you’d share what you’re doing with me!
One of the protections offered by CC-BY-SA 4.0 is ShareAlike (which is what the SA stands for). This means that if you take some of my work, transform it, and re-publish it, you must publish your work under the same, CC-BY-SA 4.0, license. You must also indicate that changes were made (by using terms such as “based on” or “transformation of” in your attribution). More details on ShareAlike are here, and on indicating that you have made changes here.
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This section adapted from an article ( https://www.tomprobyn.uk/blogs/logicplusinfinity.html) by Tom Probyn released under CC-BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en. This section of my article is released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
I am not a legal professional, but the above to me satisfies the terms given in the license guidance.
Sometimes I use open source projects to help in the building of this site. Currently, I’m not using any, but if I am, they’ll be listed here.
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